Political Prisoner: The United States gathered preachers to detention in Georgetown Courts News

Alexandria, Virginia – “Edow it now. Edit it now.”

These words rang outside a federal court near Washington, DC, on Thursday, and the lawyers argued in the case of Badar Khan Syrian, which was detained by the United States government because of his support for Palestinian rights.

Dozens of activists gathered to show solidarity with Khan SyrianPost -PhD Researcher at Georgetown University. He was arrested in March as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to punish and deport non -citizens accused of feeding “anti -Semitism” and “illegal protests” on the campus.

Speaking to the crowd in Alexandria, Virginia, Maviz Saleh – the Palestinian wife of Khan -Syrian – highlighted the impact of his detention on their three children. She said they only want their father.

“Why is this happening to him? Why do you give the Trump administration?” Saleh said. “Because he fell in love and married a Palestinian, because he dared to express his faith in nonviolence and because he spoke courageously against the genocide of my people in Gaza.”

Before his detention, Khan was a Syrian in the United States in an academic visa, where he conducted research on peacebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But the United States government has accused Khan Suri, an Indian citizen, violates the conditions of his visa by “spreading Hamas’s propaganda actively and strengthening anti -Semitism on social media.” No evidence of any confirmation.

Outside the court on Thursday, Amanda Eisenhor, an activist from Alexandria, said that the Khan Syrian case represents the intersection of cases, including freedom of expression, constitutional rights, and “tyranny” of the United States. Immigration system.

“It is also related to Palestine,” Eisenhor told the island of the island. “I want to make sure that this is always part of the conversation. Dr. Khan Suri is a political prisoner because of his association, because of his marriage to a Palestinian person. We are now a country carrying political prisoners, and we have to be ready to fight against that.”

When the legal session was revealed, activists abroad chanted a Syrian Khan and his Palestinian rights under the statue of a blindfolded woman, symbolizing justice without bias.

One of the demonstrators stopped a sign, “The heads of mobs disappear people.” Another banner announced, “legal procedures now.”

A case in Virginia, a client in Texas

In the courtroom, lawyers asked about both sides about the geographical gap between the place where the session is taking place – and where a Syrian Khan is held at the present time.

After his arrest in Virginia, immigration officials transferred a Syrian Khan from a local detention center to one in Louisiana and then in Texas.

Critics say that the government has transferred close individuals to deport to the remote states to keep them away from their families and legal difference. They also point out that states such as Louisiana and Texas are likely to have courts with conservative tendencies.

On Thursday, Khan’s Syrian lawyers have argued that the researcher would return to Virginia, where his case is currently revealing.

“We hope that the court will see, through these illegal governmental tactics, the case of Dr. Suri here in Virginia, or orders that, at least, return to Virginia, where he will be close to his legal advisor and his family,” said Samah Cisay, the staff of the Staff at the Constitutional Rights Center.

But the Trump administration has submitted an opposition request, as it prompted the court’s case to Texas.

Ultimately, Judge Patricia Tolver Giles demanded answers about the reason why Khan Suri moved very quickly from Virginia. Government lawyers gave 24 hours to respond.

Georgetown’s world lawyers have a reason for optimism about the result. Federal provincial court Issue order Columbia University, Mohsen Mahdawi, who also faces deportation.

“This is not America that we want to be.”

Since Trump began his second term in January, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio suggested that he Visas Hundreds of foreign students who participated in the protests or criticism of Israel.

But the batch of the deportation of Khan Suri was one of the most prominent cases.

To justify the removal of Khan Suri and other student activists, Rubio was martyred by the 1952 immigration and nationality law, a law during the Cold War era. One of the ruling used by the Foreign Minister rarely allows the deportation of non -citizens who clarify “possible, harmful, harmful consequences” to the United States.

The Trump Khan administration did not accuse a Syrian of a crime. But the officials accused him of “connections with a known or suspected terrorist”: his wife’s father.

The Ministry of Internal Security on social media said: “A Syrian is married to the daughter of a senior adviser to the” such “Hamas terrorist group.” mail.

But the supporters of Khan Syrian indicate that his wife’s father, Ahmed Youssef, was not enthusiastic for years, and he criticized the group on multiple occasions.

Youssef has served more than a decade ago as a consultant to the former Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail HaniHamas leader was killed by Israel in Iran last year.

Regardless, legal experts say family relations are not a criminal crime or reasons for deportation.

Hassan Ahmed, a Virginia -based lawyer, represents Khan Suri, that the claim from Georgetown’s son -in -law distinguishes the case from the batch to deport others. Students supporting the two courts.

Ahmed said: “We are not only talking about the first amendment and freedom of expression. We are talking about the constitutional freedom of associations as well.”

“This is something that distinguishes the situation of Dr. Suri, as they are pursuing it based on anything he said, re -tweeting, re -sending it, wondering, or talking to anyone (about), but they only depend on his association. This is not America that we want to be.”

Aden Hilman, the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Virginia, who helps to represent a Syrian Khan, also said that the deportation of a person based on his personal prayer is a “very frightening hypothesis”.

“If this is what the government did, which they claim to do with Dr. Suri, we are in an unprecedented time regarding our constitutional threats,” Hilman told reporters on Thursday.

Moreover, social media accounts that seem to belong to a Syrian Khan do not show any direct support for a bath or hostility towards the Jewish people. Instead, the researcher used his presence on social media for encryption Israeli atrocities In Gaza and highlighting the crimes of clear war against the Palestinians.

Khan Suri wrote in October 2023: “Israel is bombing hospitals in Gaza to transfer the land its residence, in order to build the issue to make the Palestinians in Gaza consider immigration to the Sinai desert.”

In recent months, Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza, a plan that says rights advocates ethnic cleansing.

“Kvkakoy” position

A member of the Democratic Congress, Don Bayer, who represents an area in northern Virginia where Khan Suri lived on Thursday to show support.

“I will do everything I can to help Dr. Khan (Syrian) and his family, and I encourage each of us to do everything we can tell these stories, to help educate the American people about what is happening in this threat to our constitution, to our rights,” Bayer said in a video on Thursday.

“It is a cavakic that a person is kidnapped without reason, without confession, without logic, without charges and to take off to be subjected to prison in Texas, he does not know what happens after that.”

Anita Martino, a resident of the Northern Virginia, told people that people should not disappear by the island for their speech. I attended a protest outside the session, and she held a label read, “Khan Suri is now.”

“He is very unconstitutional, and he must stop,” said Martino. “An American people and anyone in this country, whether they are citizens or residents, they all need to stand. We need to speak with one voice.”

Melissa Betsa, an activist in the Alexandria Palestinian Human Rights Group, also called for “the release of a Syrian Khan immediately.” She added that Trump is targeting students as a tactic to distract the escalating massacre in Gaza.

“We are here because we want to show solidarity with Dr. Suri,” Betica told Al -Jazeera. “We are also here because we show solidarity with Palestine.”