A US court has blocked the deportation of Indian researcher Badar Khan Suri, who was detained by immigration authorities earlier this week for spreading Hamas propaganda. His lawyer had argued that he was being targeted due to his wife's Palestinian roots.
Suri is a postdoctoral fellow studying and teaching at the prestigious Washington DC institution on a student visa. In an order on Thursday, Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles said Mr Suri "shall not be removed from the United States unless and until the Court issues a contrary order".