A federal district court judge in Virginia ordered the release of Georgetown University scholar Badar Khan Suri on Wednesday, marking at least the third time a detained student or academic targeted by the Trump administration because of their protest activity or affiliation is released from immigration detention.

A federal judge has ordered that a Georgetown scholar from India be released from immigration detention after he was detained in the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign college students.

At this time, respondents have offered no other authorization for petitioner's detention and have offered nothing to refute that his detention is punitive,' judge says - Anadolu Ajansı