Federal judge orders release of Mahmoud Khalil from ice detention | Mahmoud Khalil

Federal judge has ordered the release of Columbia graduates Mahmoud Khalil He was imprisoned for more than three months in the war against Israel in Gaza during the U.S. immigration detention.

Khalil Trump administration Because of their pro-Palestine radicalism and the last still in custody, it will be released from an ice rink in Jena, Louisiana, that he has been in custody since plainclothes immigration agents detained him in early March in the lobby of his Columbia building.

Federal Judge Michael Farbiarz said at a hearing Friday that Harrier is not a flight risk and “is not a danger to the community.

“In light of the factual record today, it is very unusual to seek detention of petitioners,” Farbiarz also said at the hearing.

Fabiaz said the government “apparently did not meet” the detention standards.

Late Friday, as part of the conditional release, Harrier was ordered to surrender his passport and green card to ICE officials in Jena. The order also stipulates that Khalil’s travel is limited to a few countries, including New York, because LouisianaMichigan and New Jersey made appearances.

As many staff members began leaving the day, a few media organizations, including guardians, including guardians, outside the detention center.

The judge’s order gave Khalil a 6.30pm CT deadline to surrender his travel documents before release.

Harrier’s arrest was widely condemned as a dangerous escalation in a Trump administration campaign against speech protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Harrier was not charged with a crime.

His detention is the first A series of arrests The International Student Activist and his release mark the latest work of a series of failed government works that promised to expel pro-Palestine international students.

Three other students were detained for similar reasons – Rümeysaöztürk, Badar Khan Suri and Mohsen Mahdawi – Previously released while his immigration case is pending. After opening up the deportation lawsuit against them, many others voluntarily left the country; other She hid while fighting.

Farbiarz of the Federal District Court of Newark, New Jersey had previously Established Invoking the law to detain Khalil – a rarely used immigration clause that allows the Secretary of State to order the deportation of anyone found to have an adverse impact on U.S. foreign policy – could be unconstitutional.

Government officials accused Khalil of anti-Semitism and Pro-Hamas of advocacy without providing any evidence. Jewish students and staff representative Khalil submitted court documents, and he was quoted by CNN last year as saying: “The liberation of the Palestinian people and the Jews is intertwined and temporarily fights, and you will not be able to achieve without another person.”

Fabias ordered Khalil to be released in his federal court case, which was brought to challenge his detention. His immigration case will take place on a separate track. Despite the government’s setbacks in foreign policy debates in multiple courts, it is likely to continue to argue that its efforts to expel Khalil were also supported by the alleged omissions in his green card application – an argument he made a few weeks after his first detention, and his lawyers refuted it.

Khalil married an American citizen. Noor Abdallahgave birth to her first child while her husband was detained. “I fight for you and everyone deserves a safe, gentle and free Palestinian child.” Harrier writes to his newborn son DeanLast month, in a letter first published in The Guardian. “I hope one day you know that your father is not indifferent, but stands high out of faith.”

Abdalla said in a statement from Khalil’s lawyer that she could finally “relieve” after the ruling.

“We know this ruling does not begin to address the injustice the Trump administration has brought to our families, but today we celebrate Mahmoud’s return New York Reunite with our little family. ”

Amnesty International in response to a judge’s order Khalil was released on Friday Celebrating this decision, calling it “Overdue” and called on the Trump administration to “accord to this order immediately.”