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A federal judge has released Badark-on-Suri from immigration detention. The Indian postdoctoral

fellow at Georgetown University is now returning to Virginia from Texas,

while his challenge to his detention plays out in court. Imperus Sarjo Martinez-Beltron is more.

Badar Khan Suri had been in immigration detention for eight weeks following his arrest in Virginia in March.

The Department of Homeland Security has accused Suri of, quote, actively spreading Hamas

propaganda and promoting anti-Semitism on social media. According to DHS, his father-in-law is a senior

advisor to Hamas. Multiple news outlets describe the father-in-law as a former advisor. The federal

government revoked Suri's visa, but he has not been charged with a crime.

He has denied the accusations against him.

Suri is the latest scholar to be released by a federal judge following a crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists.

Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Washington.

A striking, though, brief image from President Trump's mid-y's visit is likely to be Trump shaking hands with the new president of Syria.

Making it all the more striking is at one point.

Syria's new head, Ahmed al-Sharra, was an al-Qaeda fighter in Iraq and was detained by the U.S. military.

As the head of a U.S. designated terror group, he once had a $10 million bounty on his head.

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