A federal judge in Massachusetts canceled a hearing Monday regarding a Rhode Island transplant surgeon and Brown University assistant professor deported Friday over her alleged support for Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists and Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin, a Barack Obama appointee, canceled the hearing regarding the deportation Friday of Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a Lebanese national in the U.S. on an H-1B work visa, after most of the attorneys associated with the plaintiff withdrew from the case, WFXT-TV in Boston reported.

Sorokin ordered Friday that Alawieh be kept in the U.S. and brought to a court hearing Monday, but he wrote Monday morning that “Dr. Alawieh is now in Lebanon,” CBS News reported.

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