A federal judge on Thursday ordered immigration officials not to deport a Georgetown scholar who was detained by the Trump administration and accused of spreading Hamas propaganda in the latest battle over speech on U.S. college campuses.

Politico reported that the researcher, Badar Khan Suri, was both teaching and studying at Georgetown under a student visa. He was arrested at his residence Monday by agents who identified with the Department of Homeland Security. He was informed his visa had been revoked, according to the lawsuit filed on his behalf.

U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles in Alexandria, Virginia, ordered that Indian national Suri “shall not be removed from the United States unless and until the Court issues a contrary order.”

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