8/7/2025–|Last update: 10:15 (Mecca time)
A judge in the city of Boston began an extensive investigation into a lawsuit filed by the American Association of University Professors, in which the president’s administration accuses Donald Trump By restricting freedom of expression in universities in violation of the American constitution, by adopting a strict policy that included pressure on universities and the arrest and deportation of foreign students because of their supportive activities of Palestine.
Judge William Yang began looking at this case in a US partial court in Boston, Massachusetts without jury, to take two weeks.
This is a rare case among the hundreds of lawsuits that were filed in courts across the United States in an effort to challenge Trump’s attempts to carry out mass deportations, reduce spending and restructure the federal government.
This step is also a success for groups representing American university professors and seeking to protect foreign students and professors who participate in activities to support the Palestinians from facing the deportation.
In many of these cases, judges have issued quick judges at the beginning of the procedures without calling any witnesses to make their statements.
But Yang holds the approach that he has long followed and instead to hold a session to hear the lawsuit filed by university professors, saying that this is “the best way to reach the truth.”
The American Association of University Professors and its Branches at Harvard, Rutgers and New York and the Middle East Studies Association filed last March the lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of restricting freedom of standardization in violating the principles of the American constitution.
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In its opening arrasses before the Boston Partial Court, Ramia Krishnan, the lawyer for the prosecutors, said that the ministries of the Foreign and Internal Security did so after the adoption of the policy of canceling student visas and non -American faculty members who participated in supporting the Palestinian issue, arresting, detaining and deporting them as well.
Krishnan added that this policy raises an atmosphere of fear among universities, noting the abolition of the visas of hundreds of other students and researchers and the arrest of some of them, including Rumaisa Ozturk, a student of Turkish origin at the University of Tatz, after she participated in writing an opinion article criticizing the university’s reaction to the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.
She also indicated that this policy adopted after the US President in January signed two executives directing agencies to protect Americans from non -citizens who “adopt the ideology of hatred” and confront anti -Semitism, following the protests that swept universities after the war on Gaza erupted.
The campaign began on foreign students with the arrest of the student of Palestinian origin Mahmoud Khalil Last March, it later expanded to include the arrest and deportation of others, and in most cases the judges ordered the release of the detainees.
The American administration has practiced great pressure, which included the threat to cut federal financing on a number of the most prominent universities, similar to my university Colombia AndHarvardTo push it to target students and teachers involved in activities in support of the Palestinian issue.
A American judge had concluded the day before yesterday that Trump was not authorized to prevent foreign students delegations to the United States to study at Harvard University, at a time when the American president is seeking a possible agreement with that ancient educational institution.
Harvard University – which refused to comply with the directives of the US government – has previously obtained a temporary comment from the American judiciary of measures targeting foreign students as illegal and unconstitutional.