20/6/2025–|Last update: 23:40 (Mecca time)
An American judge ordered today, Friday, to release a graduate Columbia University Mahmoud Khalil From the detention headquarters of the immigration authorities, which represents a great victory for groups human rights That challenged what she described as targeting the administration of US President Donald Trump without a support of the law, a pro -Palestinians.
Khalil, born in Syria For Palestinian parents, one of the prominent figures in the protests supporting the Palestinians and anti -war Israel On Gaza, immigration officials arrested him in his university residence in Manhattan on March 8.
He described the American president Donald Trump The protests are anti -Semitic and vowed to deport foreign students participating in it, and Khalil became the first goal for this policy, and his wife, Nour Abdullah, a dentist born in Michigan recently and Khalil is under detention.
After listening to the oral pleadings from the lawyer of Khalil and the Ministry of Internal Security, the American Partial Court judge, Michael Varbaraz, ordered the ministry to release him from the detention headquarters of the immigrants in the Louisiana countryside.
Farapiers said that the government did not make any attempt to refute the evidence provided by Khalil’s lawyers that it does not pose a threat to society or that it will not escape.
The judge added in the course of issuing his ruling, “There is at least aspect of the basic claim, which is an attempt to exploit the charge of immigration here to punish the provider (Khalil),” and added that punishing a person in a civil immigration case is unconstitutional.
Khalil, who holds permanent legal residence in the United States, says he is punished for his political speech, in violation of the first amendment to the American constitution. Khalil denounced the anti -Semitism and racism in interviews with CNN and other media last year.
Farbaraz himself allowed – the last Friday – to continue the arrest of Khalil for being “detained for a second charge”, which is not to declare his work and his involvement in the campaign to boycott Israel, before he retracted his decision today.
A spokeswoman said White House Abyel Jackson in a statement, “There is no basis for a local federal judge in New Jersey – who lacks jurisdiction – by releasing Khalil from a detention center in Louisiana.”
“We expect to confirm the validity of our position in the appeal, and we look forward to the deportation of Khalil from US“.