The University of the University of Columbia arrested for participation in protests in favor of Palestine, Mahmoud Khalil, He was released this Friday on bail of the Louisiana Detention Center in which he has been locked up since last March.
Khalil has emphasized the people he met in the detention center and said that “the hundreds of men who leave behind should not be first.”
“The administration of Trump does everything possible to dehuman everyone here. Being immigrant does not mean that it is less human, “he said when he is his way out.
A federal court ordered his departure, which is an important victory for human rights groups that challenged what they called An “illegal attack” by the government of Donald Trump Against a proportian activist.
Khalil, a prominent figure in the proportions against the Israeli war in Gaza, was arrested on March 8 by immigration means in the lobby of his university residence in Manhattan.
Trump described this anti -Semitic protests and promised to deport foreign students who participated in them.
Khalil condemned anti -semitism and racism in interviews with CNN And other media last year.
The student, permanent legal resident of the United States, has denounced this is punished for his political speech, who violates the first amendment of the American Constitution.
Federal district judge Michael Farbiaarz, from Newark, New Jersey, judged on 11 June that the The government violated Khalil’s right to expression By stopping on the basis of a Unswpe law that gives the State Secretary of the United States the authority to request deportation from non -citizens whose presence in the country is considered disadvantageous for the interests of the United States’s foreign policy.
Protests for a court in New York for the liberation of activist Mahmoud Khalil.
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But on 13 June the judge refused to order Khalil’s release at a detention center in Jena, Louisian Hide information from your request for a legal permanent stay.
Khalil’s lawyers deny that accusation and claim that people are rarely stopped for these functions.
On June 16, they insisted at Farbiarz to gain access to an independent request from his client to be released on bail or transfer to a migration detention center in New Jersey to be closer to his family in New York.
Khalil, 30, is CLast year in the United States permanent resident of the United StatesAnd his wife and newborn son are American civilians.
The lawyers of the Trump administration wrote in a presentation of 17 June that Khalil’s liberation request must appeal to the judge who supervises his immigration case, an administrative process on whether it can be deported, instead of a Farbiaarz considering whether the arrest of Khalil was on 8 March.
