The forgotten prisoner – Mondoweiss

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Religion News Service (RNS). The link to the original piece by Dr. Omar Suleiman can be found here.

I was familiar with the cold, concrete visitation room: The walls were bare, the lighting too bright, the silence unsettling. In the same room I had first met Badar Khan Suri — the Georgetown University professor and father of young children who was one of many swept into ICE detention for daring to speak out against…