A federal judge has blocked Donald Trump’s administration’s move to deport a Georgetown University researcher studying and teaching on a student visa, accused of opposing US foreign policy in the Israel-Hamas conflict, CNN reported. US federal immigration authorities detained the Indian national on March 17  and postdoctoral fellow, Badar Khan Suri, outside his home in Arlington’s Rosslyn neighbourhood in Virginia on Monday night, his lawyer said in a lawsuit requesting his immediate release.

Badar Khan Suri is a postdoctoral fellow at the Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC. The US district judge has ordered not to remove Badar Khan Suri from the country unless the court issues another ruling.