In January 2018 Badri's brother Gasim Bedri, head of the Ahfad University for Women, was recorded on video grabbing a female student who was protesting by her head scarf and slapping her several times on the head. Badri defended Bedri's actions, claiming that the video "only shows one side of the truth" and that some of the demonstrators had threatened to harm and vandalize the university.[5]