{"id":38745,"date":"2025-04-14T15:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/georgetown-alumni-and-students-call-for-release-of-scholar-detained-by-immigration-authorities\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:07:15","slug":"georgetown-alumni-and-students-call-for-release-of-scholar-detained-by-immigration-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/georgetown-alumni-and-students-call-for-release-of-scholar-detained-by-immigration-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgetown alumni and students call for release of scholar detained by immigration authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letter says Trump administration\u2019s detention of Khan Suri \u2018represents a fundamental violation of academic freedom\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/14\/donald-trump-tariffs-china-smartphones-computers-semiconductors-immigration-us-politics-live-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than 370 alumni of Georgetown University joined 65 current students there in signing on to a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/19ExNYSjEOcP9E9UFKhFtzbEHV9ZxDAIX\/view?usp=sharing\">letter<\/a> opposing immigration authorities\u2019 detention of Dr Badar Khan Suri, a senior postdoctoral fellow at the institution\u2019s Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU).<\/p>\n<p>The letter, dated Sunday and shared with the Guardian, follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehoya.com\/news\/tracking-badar-khan-suris-legal-battle\/\">detention<\/a> of Khan Suri \u2013 a citizen of India \u2013 on 17 March. He is being held at an immigration prison in Alvarado, Texas, where his next hearing is scheduled for 6 May.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/14\/georgetown-professor-detained\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter says Trump administration\u2019s detention of Khan Suri \u2018represents a fundamental violation of academic freedom\u2019 US politics live \u2013 latest updates More than 370 alumni of Georgetown University joined 65 current students there in signing on to a letter opposing immigration authorities\u2019 detention of Dr Badar Khan Suri, a senior postdoctoral fellow at the institution\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Georgetown alumni and students call for release of scholar detained by immigration authorities\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/georgetown-alumni-and-students-call-for-release-of-scholar-detained-by-immigration-authorities\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Georgetown alumni and students call for release of scholar detained by immigration authorities\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}