#BadarKhanSuri, a postdoc fellow at #Georgetown, was released after 58 days.

#RumeyzaOzturk, a #Tufts doctoral student, was released after 45 days.

#MohsenMahdawi, a #Columbia undergrad, was released after 16 days.

But 72 days after his arrest on Mar 9, #MahmoudKhalil — the country’s most prominent pro-#Palestinian #protester turned prisoner — is still detained in Jena, LA….

#Trump #immigration #law #dissent #democracy #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-detention-judge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=4CE24CD2-E7AD-4501-B3EF-08583FEDF33B

Freed from #ICE custody, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi graduates from Columbia to cheers

from #AssociatedPress #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 5:46 PM EDT, May 19, 2025

"NEW YORK (#AP) — Less than three weeks after his release from an immigration jail, the #Palestinian activist #MohsenMahdawi strode across the graduation stage at #ColumbiaUniversity on Monday morning, savoring a moment the #Trump administration had fought to make impossible.

Draped in a keffiyeh, Mahdawi, 34, paused to listen to the swell of cheers from his fellow graduates. Then he joined a vigil just outside #Columbia’s gates, raising a photograph of his classmate Mahmoud Khalil, who remains in federal custody."

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-graduation-mohsen-mahdawi-b17b3d7514d760af8835eaf909fb83ac?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

Jennifer Rubin: Trump and his Henchmen lash out when they lose...and then they start arresting people

#TheContrarian #law #ruleoflaw #trump #Constitution #stephenmiller #habeascorpus #ICE #kidnapping #maga #RumeysaOzturk #MohsenMahdawi
https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/trump-and-his-henchmen-lash-out-when

So important not to let the bigger picture of #MohsenMahdawi case go forgotten. He was on his way to becoming a #US citizen when #MarcoRubio personally decided to seek his #deportation cos of speech which #Rubio himself acknowledged was lawful.

Not for anything illegal. SPEECH.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25934949-ca2-mahdawi-stay-opinion/

#ColumbiaUniversity undergrad & activist #MohsenMahdawi can stay #free on bail, per UNANIMOUS US Court of Appeals for Second Circuit. It denies govt's stay & mandamus requests.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.9122336d-3eb3-4022-aba2-4f11ea8a7dfd/gov.uscourts.ca2.9122336d-3eb3-4022-aba2-4f11ea8a7dfd.86.0.pdf

In declining the writ of mandamus, the court cites #RumeysaOzturk’s case. [see pic]

#GiftArticle

I Was Detained for My Beliefs. Who Will Be Next?

Guest essay by #MohsenMahdawi

#immigration #law #Trump #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #dissent #AmericanAutocracy #dictatorship #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/opinion/mohsen-mahdawi-ice-detention.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EE8.aupQ.28zpWyh0uozq&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#MohsenMahdawi has been freed from detention. “We are pro #peace and anti #war,” Mohsen told a huge crowd outside court after his release.

“To my people in #Palestine: I feel your pain, I see your suffering; and I see #freedom and it is very very soon.”

https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-mohsen-mahdawi-released

The #Trump admin is appealing a lower court decision to free #MohsenMahdawi, a permanent #legal resident & an organizer of the pro-Palestinian movement at #Columbia who had been detained at his court appointment for becoming a #US #citizen on April 14. After he was released from federal custody on Wed following the lower court order, Mahdawi offered a defiant message to Trump & his ofcls: “I am saying it clear & loud. I am not afraid of you.”

#law #immigration #dissent
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05/01/us/trump-news/8cbefa1a-9ef1-59d0-aef7-4f0e5738ef11?smid=url-share

Jennifer Rubin & Lia Ernst: Lia Ernst on the release of #Columbia Student Mohsen Mahdawi

"On April 14, Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested while attending his final citizenship interview at an immigration office in #Vermont. He was detained over his pro-Palestinian beliefs. Yesterday, a Vermont judge ruled that he must be released as his two-week detention demonstrated 'great harm'. "

#MohsenMahdawi #detention #kidnapping #ICE
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/lia-ernst-on-the-release-of-columbia

#Columbia student #MohsenMahdawi is released from detention

Mohsen Mahdawi, a #ColumbiaUniversity student arrested & detained by masked #immigration agents after his naturalization interview in Vermont, has been #released from #detention while his case proceeds.

US District Judge Geoffrey Crawford said Wednesday that Mahdawi's detention for 2 weeks, "so far demonstrates great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime."

#law #Trump #immigration #AbuseOfPower
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5382306/mohsen-madawi-released-ice-columbia-university-activist-judge

'I am not afraid of you,' #Columbia student says of #Trump after release from #ICE

By Laura Romero

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

#FreePalestine #MohsenMahdawi
#ResistICE #Resistance

HT @fight

Great news for students, Palestinian solidarity + free speech!

https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-mohsen-mahdawi-released

BREAKING: Mohsen Mahdawi Released From ICE Detention
'To President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you,' Mahdawi said after he was freed on bail. #mohsenmahdawi #Trump #FreePalestine
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-mohsen-mahdawi-released

This is awesome.

“Look at this video: a *huge* crowd of Vermonters swaying alongside Mohsen right after he was freed, singing ‘We Shall Overcome’

Signs reading ‘Hands off our #students’ & ‘#free speech’ are peppered in between large #Palestine flags”
#MohsenMahdawi #Vermont #Trump #protest #law

Palestinian Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi has been released from ICE detention.

On Wednesday, a judge denied the government’s request to pause his release and ordered him to be freed on bail, pending a legal challenge to the government’s detention of the Palestinian Columbia student in the first place.

#Trump #ICE #USPolitics #MohsenMahdawi

BREAKING: Mohsen Mahdawi Released From ICE Detention
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-mohsen-mahdawi-released

[Mohsen Mahdawi] Palestinian student activist at Columbia is released after arrest at his citizenship interview | AP News (2025-04-30)

https://apnews.com/article/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-student-palestinian-release-dd95ffff78464df1b485d5912f1b3fcb

#MohsenMahdawi #ColumbiaU #ICE #USPol
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe

Great news.
#MohsenMahdawi has been released from federal custody.

“A system of democracy guarantees freedom of speech. Speaking of Palestine does not only qualify as freedom of speech, but it is also about our humanity.”
“We are very hopeful that he will be released,” Cyrus Mehta, one of Mahdawi’s lawyers, said. “The judge wants to move quickly, & he realizes that this is a case of great importance for this country.”
Super proud that my brother is part of the legal team. I hope Mahdawi walks free soon
#MohsenMahdawi #USA #Palestine
https://vtdigger.org/2025/04/23/lawyers-for-mohsen-mahdawi-detained-palestinian-vermonter-argue-for-his-release/

#GazaProtester #MohsenMahdawi #ColumbiaUniversity

Talking about his motivation; not in the least scary.

"Detained pro-Palestine student activist meets US senator | AJ #shorts" [ ± 1min]
by aljazeeraenglish

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CWa1UdO0ozw

Quote by aje
"Apr 22, 2025
A US senator shared a video of his meeting with detained Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi who was taken into custody by immigration officials over his role in pro-Palestine protests on campus."

#NeverAgain #StopTheGenocide
#JusticeForHindRajab #JusticeForRifaatRadwan
#JailForNetanyahu #JailForGallant #SmotrichRaus