Brief by Shorts91NewsDesk / 11:13am on 20 Mar 2025,Thursday India Global
Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national and postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, has been detained by U.S. federal agents on allegations of promoting Hamas propaganda and antisemitism on social media. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claims Suri has connections to Hamas, though no direct evidence has been publicly presented. Suri, who completed his PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia in 2020, teaches a course on "Majoritarianism and Minority Rights in South Asia" at Georgetown. He is married to a U.S. citizen originally from Gaza. His detention is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to deport foreign nationals involved in pro-Palestinian activism, raising concerns among civil rights organizations about potential targeting of political opponents.
