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Video Shows Masked Federal Agents Ambushing Georgetown Professor Badar Khan Suri

HeadlineApr 09, 2025

New video has emerged of the arrest of Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown University professor and postdoctoral scholar who last month was ambushed by masked federal agents outside of his family’s home in Rosslyn, Virginia. After being repeatedly transferred across at least five ICE facilities, he’s currently jailed at an ICE detention center in Texas. His legal team said that for two weeks Suri was placed in a cell without a bed and with a television blaring 21 hours a day and was denied food or water to break his Ramadan fast. His legal team also said Suri’s son spent days crying uncontrollably after his father’s arrest and has now stopped speaking.

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