A court in the Dominic Republic ruled on Tuesday that a Minnesota college student has been unlawfully detained in a hotel as he assists authorities in the search for Sudiksha Konanki, a University of Pittsburgh student who disappeared earlier this month during a spring break vacation with friends to the island nation.
Prior to the ruling, Joshua Riibe, 22, the last person to see Konanki before she went missing, had been under close police supervision and confined to the RIU Hotel & Resort for the last eight days.
