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The Guardian - US
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Victoria Bekiempis

Judge bars Trump administration from deporting Indian academic over political views

outside of a building at Georgetown University.
The Trump administration has accused a Georgetown academic of spreading Hamas propaganda, but has not offered any evidence. Photograph: Backyard Productions/Alamy

A US district judge has barred Donald Trump’s administration from deporting an Indian academic from Georgetown University after the Department of Homeland Security accused him of having ties to Hamas.

On Thursday, US district judge Patricia Giles in Alexandria, Virginia, prohibited federal officials from deporting Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow at the university, in an order that is to remain in effect until it is lifted by the court, Reuters reports.

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