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Badar Khan Suri: Georgetown academic freed from immigration detention

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Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri has been freed from a Texas detention centre.

A federal judge ordered the release of Mr Suri , who was a postdoctoral fellow at the prestigious Washington DC institution on a student visa.

He was arrested outside his Virginia home on 17 March by immigration agents.

His lawyers say he was targeted "for speech in support of Palestinian rights and family ties to Gaza ".

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