A graduate student who has fled from us says allegations about her alleged support from Hamas, “ridiculous”

A student of higher studies fled the United States because of her fears that will be held by a campaign against the demonstrators supporting the Palestinians that denies the allegations of the American authorities that she participated in Hamas promotion activities.

“I am not” a terrorist sympathy. Its secretary Ownership He described it publicly as. “So, I find it a kind of tampering.”

Sreenvasan, currently in Canada, spoke to CBC news about her predicament. She is afraid of her safety and CBC News agreed not to disclose its location.

She specifically denies participating in a high -level protest at the University of Colombia, where the students seized a building After that, police officers stormed this To end the occupation last spring.

The administration of US President Donald Trump has taken steps for the individual demonstrators supporting the Palestinians, and it bears the taste for its involvement in a large number of protests in American universities.

In January, Trump Pledge Some university students who are not citizens who participated in such protests.

“I was very afraid of detention,” said Serenivasan, who referred to his detention. Some of their colleagues from Colombia University students As a reason for her concerns about her safety.

Surprising events

Until recently, Serenivasan has been a PhD in Urban Planning at the University of Colombia in New York City.

Between following her studies and classifying student papers, “she rarely left the office,” says Srenaifasan.

Then she learned to cancel her student visa, and that immigration and customs enforcement agents in the United States were knocking on her door in search of her detention.

I decided to leave the country, through a trip from Canada from Canada from La Gardadia Airport in New York.

“It is a bit surreal feeling,” says Sreenvasan, who is still trying to understand the events that revealed.