Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam walked free on October 3, 2025, after 43 years of wrongful imprisonment for a 1980 murder he didn’t commit. Immigration officers immediately detained him at Pennsylvania’s Huntingdon State prison gates, citing a decades-old deportation order[1].
The 64-year-old, who came to the U.S. from India as a 9-month-old infant, faces deportation despite having no connections there. “He doesn’t speak Hindi,” his niece Zoë Miller-Vedam told USA Today. “We tease him that he has more of a Philadelphia accent than anything else”[2].
During his imprisonment, Vedam earned multiple degrees including an MBA with a 4.0 GPA, taught literacy to fellow inmates, and received over 51 commendations for volunteer service[3]. His exoneration came after the Pennsylvania Innocence Project discovered concealed FBI evidence showing the murder weapon couldn’t have caused the victim’s wounds[3:1].
His family, all U.S. citizens, was devastated by ICE’s intervention. “He’s unfamiliar with modern technology, he wouldn’t know how to find housing or a job,” Miller-Vedam said. “In the US, he’d have family and a support system to help him rebuild his life”[2:1].
Times of India - Indian-origin Subu Vedam to be deported after 43 years in US jail, family says ‘he doesn’t speak Hindi’ ↩︎
Times of India - Indian-origin Subu Vedam to be deported after 43 years in US jail, family says ‘he doesn’t speak Hindi’ ↩︎ ↩︎
WSWS - Subu Vedam, falsely imprisoned for 43 years, seized by ICE for deportation ↩︎ ↩︎
Remember: the cruelty is the point with these people.
We know everything about the victim and nothing of his captors.
Difference between GESTAPO and ICE, GESTAPO agents didn’t cover their faces nor their number.
This is sick.
