2 h. ago Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi freed after federal judge orders release

Palestinian, a lawful permanent US resident, was detained and ordered deported despite not being charged with crimeUS politics live – latest updatesMohsen Mahdawi has walked out of immigration detention after a federal judge in Vermont ordered his release. The Palestinian green-card holder and student at Columbia University had been detained and ordered deported by the Trump administration on 14 April despite not being charged with a crime.“The two weeks of detention so far demonstrate great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime,” said Geoffrey Crawford, a US district judge, at a hearing on Wednesday, according to ABC News. “Mr Mahdawi, I will order you released.” Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Columbia student activist rebukes Trump after release from ICE detention: ‘I’m not afraid of you’

Palestinian activist is among dozens of international students marked for deportation by Trump administration

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4 h. ago Federal judge in Vermont orders release of Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi

Mahdawi, a lawful permanent US resident, was detained and ordered deported by the Trump administration despite not being charged with a crimeUS politics live – latest updatesA federal judge in Vermont ordered the release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green-card holder and student at Columbia University who was detained and ordered deported by the Trump administration on 14 April despite not being charged with a crime.“The two weeks of detention so far demonstrate great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime,” said Geoffrey Crawford, a US district judge, at a hearing Wednesday, according to ABC News. “Mr Mahdawi, I will order you released.” Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Judge orders release of Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi from ICE detention after his arrest during citizenship interview

Palestinian activist is among dozens of international students marked for deportation by Trump administration

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7 d. ago Judge orders bail hearing for detained student Mohsen Mahdawi next week

Palestinian green-card holder was arrested by US immigration authorities in Vermont on 14 AprilMohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green-card holder and student at Columbia University who was detained by the Trump administration on 14 April, will have a hearing next week on his request for release on bail, a federal judge decided on Wednesday.Judge Geoffrey W Crawford extended a temporary restraining order issued by a separate judge last week to keep Mahdawi in Vermont. Immigration authorities have sent other foreign students arrested for their pro-Palestinian views to detention centers in Louisiana and Texas, jurisdictions typically overseen by more conservative judges. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Lawyers ask federal judge in Vermont for immediate release of detained Palestinian activist

A federal judge is scheduled to consider a request to immediately release a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship

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2 w. ago Columbia student activist and green card holder arrested during citizenship interview

Mohsen Mahdawi is among latest Palestinian international students targeted by Trump administration for their activism

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2 w. ago Mohsen Mahdawi, Palestinian green card holder and Columbia student, detained by Ice

Mahdawi was at a naturalization interview in Vermont when he was taken in move his lawyers say is ‘retaliation’Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green card holder and student at Columbia University, was apprehended by US immigration authorities in Vermont on Monday, according to his lawyers and a video of the incident.Mahdawi, who was a leader of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia last spring, was arrested by Ice on Monday morning in Colchester, Vermont, while he was attending a naturalization interview, his lawyer said in a statement to the Guardian. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Judge in Vermont considers whether he has jurisdiction of detained Tufts University student's case

A federal judge in Vermont who's considering whether he has jurisdiction over the case of a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration officials has raised the idea of having her brought back to his court for a hearing

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4 w. ago Detained Tufts student taken from Massachusetts before judge ordered her kept there, government says

U.S. Justice Department lawyers say a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities had been moved to Vermont by the time a federal judge ordered that she be kept in Massachusetts

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