A judge in Virginia on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University who was arrested in March, after two months of detention in an immigration facility in Texas. The order, issued from the bench by Judge Patricia Giles of the Eastern District of Virginia, came as courts…
Mohsen Mahdawi, an organizer of the pro-Palestinian movement at Columbia University, was freed from federal custody on Wednesday after immigration officials sought to rescind his green card. In ruling to release Mr. Mahdawi, a federal judge, Geoffrey W. Crawford, found on Wednesday that he did not pose a danger to the public and that he…
Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident living in White River Junction and a graduate student at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, was detained Monday morning at a US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office. He had arrived expecting to complete his naturalisation interview. Instead, plainclothes agents with covered faces and guns took him…