Columbia graduate had been held for over three months over his activism against Israel’s war in Gaza
A federal judge has ordered the release of Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil from US immigration detention, where he has been held for more than three months over his activism against Israel’s war in Gaza.
Khalil, the most high profile of the students to be arrested by the Trump administration for their pro-Palestinian activism, and the last of them still in detention, is set to be released from an Ice facility in Jena, Louisiana, where he has been held since shortly after plainclothes immigration agents detained him in in early March in the lobby of his Columbia building.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/20/mahmoud-khalil-release-federal-judge
Author : Noa Yachot, Anna Betts and agencies
Publish date : 2025-06-20 19:39:00
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