Academic Badar Khan Suri of Georgetown was released from ICE custody hours after a Virginia federal judge ordered Wednesday.

Khan Suri is among several people who are legally studying in the United States, who are targeted by the Trump administration with pro-Palestinian activism. He spent two months in detention.

Patricia Giles, a U.S. District Court judge in Alexandria, Virginia, said the ruling was in effect immediately, without conditions and without any bonds. She added that Khan Suri's release was "in the public interest to undermine the creepy effects on protected speech at the hearing". In her ruling, the judge explained how the government did not submit enough evidence on several of its claims.

A large number of protesters outside the court reportedly cheered after hearing the ruling.

Badar Khan Suri will return home awaiting the outcome of a petition against the Trump administration as he opposes the Trump administration for violating the First Amendment and other constitutional rights.

He also faces deportation lawsuits in an immigration court in Texas.

"Just was rejected," Khan Suri told reporters after she was released from a detention facility in Alvarado near Dallas. "It took two months, but I'm so grateful that I was finally free."

The Trump administration ordered the detention of Indian citizen Khan on March 17. He was previously held in an immigration prison in Alvarado, Texas.

Immigration officials revoked his J-1 student visa, accusing his father-in-law Ahmed Yousef, a Hamas official, who was a consultant over a decade ago, and in addition to claiming his position on social media support for Palestine, he was “deported.” When Yousef was not an advisor to Hamas for more than a decade, he said Khan Suri did not represent Hamas in "political activities."

On March 15, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio decided that Khan Suri's presence in the United States "could have serious foreign policy consequences."

Khan Suri, who married Palestinian U.S. citizen Mapheze Saleh, is a senior postdoctoral fellow at the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding (ACMCU). Many students and alumni of the institution signed a letter against his detention from ICE.

Giles banned federal officials from expelling postdoctoral fellows in March after his wife filed an emergency court request to prevent deportation.