{"id":855183,"date":"2025-06-12T22:11:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T03:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/indian-student-badar-khan-suri-from-georgetown-varsity-freed-from-ice-detention-says-i-was-chained-treated-like\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T22:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T03:11:58","slug":"indian-student-badar-khan-suri-from-georgetown-varsity-freed-from-ice-detention-says-i-was-chained-treated-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/12\/indian-student-badar-khan-suri-from-georgetown-varsity-freed-from-ice-detention-says-i-was-chained-treated-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian student Badar Khan Suri from Georgetown Varsity freed from ICE detention; says, \u2018I was chained, treated like\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Badar Khan Suri<\/a>, a Georgetown University scholar from India, who was arrested amid Trump administration\u2019s crackdown on foreign students was released from immigration detention on Wednesday<\/p>\n

Khan Suri will now go home to his family in Virginia but he is awaiting the decision of his petition against the Trump administration<\/a> for wrongful arrest and detention.<\/p>\n

\u201cJustice delayed is justice denied,\u201d Khan Suri told reporters after his release from a detention facility in Alvarado, near Dallas. \u201cIt took two months, but I\u2019m extremely thankful that finally I\u2019m free.\u201d<\/p>\n

Khan Suri is also facing deportation proceedings in an immigration court in Texas.<\/p>\n

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\u2018My ankles, my wrist, my body\u2019, Khan Suri claims<\/h2>\n

Khan Suri was arrested by masked, plain-clothed officers on the evening of March 17 outside his apartment complex in Arlington, Virginia. He was then put on a plane to Louisiana and later to a detention center in Texas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Speaking about the conditions in which he was subject to, Khan Suri said that during the first several days in ICE custody, he wasn\u2019t sure where he was being taken and was treated like sub human, as reported by NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the first seven, eight days, I even missed my shadow,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was Kafka-esqe, where they were taking me, what they were doing to me. I was chained \u2014 my ankles, my wrist, my body. Everything was chained.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inside the detention center, Khan Suri described the facilities as unhygienic and said he tried to raise his concerns with the ombudsman, but never received a response. He feared whether his three children would be harmed.<\/p>\n

Khan Suri said that amid his detention, he was fearful about how his three children would fare.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had only worried that, \u2018Oh, my kids are suffering because of me,\u2019 My eldest son is only nine, and my twins are only five,\u201d Khan Suri said. \u201cMy nine-year-old knows where I am. He was going through very rough times. My wife used to tell me that he was crying. He needs support from mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has said that it revoked Khan Suri’s visa because of his social media posts and his wife\u2019s connection to Gaza as a Palestinian American. They accused him of supporting Hamas, which the U.S. has designated as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n

Immigration authorities have detained college students from across the country \u2014 many of whom participated in campus protest<\/a>s over the Israel-Hamas war <\/a>\u2014 since the first days of the Trump administration. Khan Suri is the latest to win release from custody, along with Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University student from Turkey, and Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University.<\/p>\n

(With inputs from NBC News and AP)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown University scholar from India, who was arrested amid Trump administration\u2019s crackdown on foreign students was released from immigration detention on Wednesday Khan Suri will now go home to his family in Virginia but he is awaiting the decision of his petition against the Trump administration for wrongful arrest and detention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":855184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24960,1882],"tags":[6494,7219],"class_list":{"0":"post-855183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indian","8":"category-student","9":"tag-indian","10":"tag-student"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}