A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration not to deport Badar Khan Suri, an Indian man studying at Washington’s Georgetown University whose lawyer has said the United States was seeking to remove him after it accused him of harming US foreign policy.

Reuters notes the order is to remain in effect until lifted by the court, according to the three-paragraph order by US District Judge Patricia Giles in Alexandria, Virginia.

The American Civil Liberties Union also defended Suri and said he was “transferred to multiple immigration detention centres” before being taken to Alexandria, Louisiana.

Federal agents arrested Suri outside his home in Rosslyn, Virginia on Monday night. The lawyer welcomed the ruling and called it “the first bit of due process Dr Khan Suri has received since he was snatched from his family Monday night”.