Badar Khan Suri: The Indian scholar arrested in US over Palestinian sympathies

Friends and family of Badar Khan Suri in India say they are shocked by the terror charges against him.

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On that summer evening, Mr Suri had been sitting outside his department at Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia university when a classmate announced that an international aid convoy was set to go to Gaza - the Palestinian territory run by the armed Islamist group Hamas and under blockade by Israel.

To students of conflict studies, the caravan - of more than 150 people from several Asian countries - offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness one of the world's most contentious disputes up close.

Mr Suri happily agreed to participate, a classmate recalled to the BBC.

It was during this trip that he met Mapheze Saleh, a Palestinian and the daughter of a former Hamas adviser, whom he married a few months later.

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