Mahmoud Khalil: U.S. judge denies release of detained Palestinian activist | Mahmoud Khalil

A federal judge refused to order the release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a setback for a former Columbia student. Main ruling Oppose Trump administration’s efforts to detain him.

Khalil, a green card holder who has not been accused of crime, is one of the most notable people in the U.S. government’s crackdown on radicalism on pro-Palestinian campuses. Although the key ruling In his favor, Khalil has been detained since March Missed the birth of a son.

His advocates were hopeful earlier this week and he was almost free to walk. On Wednesday, Judge Michael Fabiaz rule The Trump administration no longer detains Khalil because of his claims that he posed a threat to U.S. foreign policy. A federal judge in New Jersey said efforts to deport him on those grounds could be unconstitutional.

Farbiarz appealed to the U.S. government until Friday morning to an order that the Trump administration did not do so. Harrier’s lawyer debate He must be released immediately, but the government said it would leave him in custody Remote Detention Centers in Louisiana. The government argued that it was authorized to continue to detain him on alternative grounds – accusing him of lying about his green card application.

Fabiaz said Friday that Khalil’s attorney failed to provide enough evidence that the detention based on the green card requirement was illegal, suggesting the 30-year-old activist’s attorney could seek bail from a Louisiana immigration judge.

Khalil strongly rejected the government’s claims on green card application issues, believing that these claims were excuses for him to be detained.

“Mahmoud Khalil was detained for his advocacy for Palestinian rights,” one of his attorneys Amy Greer said in a statement Friday night.

“The government is now using a cruel, transparent delay strategy that keeps him away from his wife and newborn son before the first day of the family. [immigration] Detention represents his Palestinian compatriots’ advocacy for him. It is unjust, shocking, and shameful. ”

Khalil had previously proposed the idea that he omitted information about the application.

In a document last week, he insisted that he was never employed or served as an “official” for UN relief and Palestinian refugees, completing an internship approved by the university as part of his graduate studies, as the government claims.

Khalil said he also moved to the U.S. in December 2022 and in December 2022, and he also stopped working for the British Embassy in Beirut, despite the government’s claims he had worked in the embassy’s Syrian office for a longer period.

Friday ruled to extend his detention on the same day Celebrity Father Shooting video Read Khalil’s letter to his newborn son. Father’s Day campaign published by the American Civil Liberties Union, Calling for Khalil’s freedom And include actors Mark Ruffalo,,,,, Mahershala AliArian Moayed and Alex Winter.

Earlier this week, when Khalil was supported, his wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, issued a statement saying: “Real justice will first be evacuated from us, this is the Nice Palestinian father from New York to Gaza, from New York to Gaza, who must endure the painful isolation of Mahmoud like Mahmoud.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has previously claimed that Khalil must be fired because his ongoing existence would undermine U.S. foreign policy, an effort that civil rights advocates say is a blatant repression of legal freedom of speech.