Badar Khan Suri Freed. EXCLUSIVE: Inside His Detainment

On March 17, the Trump administration kidnapped Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri as he was on his way home.

In just four days, he was transferred between five different facilities across three states, where he was refused food or water to break his fast, forced to sleep on the floor in overcrowded cells surrounded by blaring television, and lights on for hours on end, with his family left reeling in his absence.

On Monday, at Zeteo’s anniversary event in DC, his wife, Mapheze Saleh, joined Zeteo’s political correspondent Prem Thakker in front of an audience to tell us about who Badar Khan Suri is as a person, the conditions he faced in ICE detention, and how deeply this has affected her family.

Saleh’s first extended interview in English media came right before a pivotal Wednesday hearing for Dr. Khan Suri’s release on bond.

*NOTEThis interview was originally published earlier on Zeteo.com. As of Wednesday, a federal judge ordered for Dr. Khan Suri to be freed. For exclusive, early access to hardhitting interviews like this one, subscribe to Zeteo’s Substack here*

*READ PREM’S LATEST COVERAGE OF THE STORY HERE*

_“I want you to imagine with me, imagine that you are on your way back to home, you will find a masked federal agent waiting for you to come home and then they're going to arrest you and then transfer you from a detention facility to another. And it ends up with you 1,500 miles from your family. Imagine that your day and night are the same because they will never switch off the lights in the detention center…”_

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