Aditya Harsono, who got here to the US in 2015 to pursue a bachelor’s diploma in environmental science from Southwest Minnesota State College, was detained on March 27 by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “simply days after his scholar visa was all of a sudden revoked with out warning,” Aditya’s spouse, Peyton Harsono, wrote in a fundraising web page she arrange on the GoFundMe crowdfunding platform.
Aditya enrolled in the identical college’s MBA programme in 2022, in line with The New York Instances. Along with his F-1 scholar visa, he has a pending inexperienced card utility by way of his marriage to Peyton, an American citizen.
Sarah Gad, Aditya’s lawyer, informed the NYT the Indonesian’s visa revocation was allegedly based mostly on a misdemeanour conviction in 2022, after he drew graffiti on a semi-truck trailer.
Aditya was additionally arrested in 2021 for breaking curfew throughout a protest in Minneapolis towards the homicide of George Floyd, a cost later dismissed by prosecutors, Gad stated.
Aditya, who’s a Muslim, has additionally reportedly offered artwork and merchandise to assist Palestinian victims of the Israel-Gaza warfare. “We worry his political activism performed a task in focusing on him,” his spouse wrote.
