US judge orders release of Georgetown scholar jailed over Palestine
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) legal advocacy group says a federal judge in the US has ordered the immediate release of Badar Khan Suri.
Khan Suri, a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University, was arrested in March as part of President Trump’s push to deport non-citizens accused of fuelling “anti-Semitism” and “illegal protests” on US college campuses.
An Indian national, Khan Suri was in the US on an academic visa.
The judge’s order means that he “will finally go home to his wife and three children”, CCR said in a post on X, denouncing what it described as the Trump administration’s “attack on speech in support of Palestinian rights”.
BREAKING: Federal Judge orders the immediate release of Badar Khan Suri! Dr. Suri will finally go home to his wife and three children after two months of detention as part of Trump admin's attack on speech in support of Palestinian rights.
— The CCR is on bsky (@ccrjustice.org) (@theCCR) May 14, 2025
Israel’s war on Gaza ‘permanent stain on world’s conscience’: US senator
US Senator Bernie Sanders has shared a video of the UN’s top humanitarian official speaking at the Security Council yesterday about the effects of Israel’s war on Gaza.
“This will be a permanent stain on the world’s conscience,” Sanders wrote on X.
Sanders put forward two Senate resolutions in early April seeking to suspend “offensive arms sales” from the US to Israel amid the Gaza war. The motions ultimately failed to pass.
“This war has been conducted almost entirely with American weapons and some $18 billion in US taxpayer dollars,” Sanders said in a statement at the time.
“The United States must not continue to supply endless amounts of military aid and weaponry to the Netanyahu government.”
