Appeals court allows Georgetown researcher, previously detained by ICE, to remain free

Badar Khan Suri, the Georgetown University researcher arrested in March by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents outside his Arlington, Virginia, home, can remain free while he fights his deportation, a federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday.

By a vote of 2-1, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals panel turned down the Trump administration’s request that Suri be returned to immigration detention while it seeks to deport him, ostensibly over his pro-Palestinian social media posts as well as his father-in-law’s role as a political adviser to Hamas leaders.