Yousof Azizi, a 40-year-old Iranian PhD candidate at Virginia Tech, was detained by ICE on April 13 outside his home in Maryland and is now held in Arizona after multiple transfers. DHS alleges he lied on his visa application by denying past membership in Iran's Student Basij Organization, a group affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, though his wife and attorney dispute this, saying he had a pending visa status change application that left him legally compliant at the time of arrest. The case has drawn significant attention from civil rights organizations and media coverage over the past two weeks, with supporters calling for transparency about the allegations against him.