US EditionColumbia protester Mahmoud Khalil freed from immigration detention
- Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist, was freed on Friday from a Louisiana immigration detention center after a judge approved his bail.
- Khalil was taken into custody on March 8 in New York due to his involvement in demonstrations supporting Palestine, occurring amid the Trump administration’s intensified efforts to suppress campus activism.
- District Judge Michael Farbiarz ruled that Khalil, a legal U.S. resident not accused of violence, was neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community.
- Upon his release, Khalil criticized the Trump administration's efforts to strip immigrants of their dignity and described his three-month detention as unjustifiably prolonged.
- Khalil is required to hand over his passport and is prohibited from international travel, although he is permitted to move freely within the United States, indicating that legal limitations remain in place despite his release.
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Since his arrest last March, Mahmoud Khalil has become the symbol of the pro-Palestinian student movement that Donald Trump seeks to muzzle.
Mahmoud Khalil: US student detained by immigration officials over pro-Palestinian protests released
Judge Michael Farbiarz said it would be "highly, highly unusual" for the government to continue detaining a legal resident who was unlikely to flee and hadn't been accused of any violence.
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Malay MailPro-Palestinian protest leader Mahmoud Khalil released from US custody
NEW YORK: Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University student who was one of the most visible leaders of nationwide pro-Palestinian campus protests, was released Friday from a federal detention centre. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd
The arrest of Chalil in March caused a lot of attention not only in the United States. Now the Pro-Palestinian activist has been released.
Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from an immigration jail
JENA, La. — Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday from federal immigration detention, freed after 104 days by a judge’s ruling after becoming a symbol of President Donald Trump ’s clampdown on campus protests.The former Columbia University graduate student left a federal facility in Louisiana on Friday. He is expected to head to New York to reunite with his U.S. citizen wife and infant son, born while Khalil was detained.“Justi…
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