Free Speech and Human Rights...Things Of The Past? "Hostage Mahmoud Khalil"

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By:  BY  JAKE OFFENHARTZ

12 March 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — A government lawyer asked a federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday to move the legal fight

over the detention of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil to New Jersey or Louisiana, two locations where he has been held as the Trump administration seeks to deport him over his participation in pro-Palestinian protests at the school.

Immigration enforcement agents arrested Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident who is married to an American citizen, in New York on Saturday. After initially being held in New Jersey, he was moved to an immigration detention center in Louisiana.

After Khalil’s arrest, Judge Jesse M. Furman ordered that the 30-year-old not be deported while the court considers a legal challenge brought by his lawyers, who are seeking to have Khalil returned to New York and released under supervision. They argue that he engaged in protected free speech and that the government is illegally retaliating against him over it.

During a brief hearing Wednesday, attorney Brandon Waterman argued on behalf of the Justice Department that the venue for the deportation fight be moved from New York City to Louisiana or New Jersey.

Furman, calling the legal issues “important and weighty,” asked the two sides to submit a joint letter on Friday describing when they propose to submit written arguments over the legal issues raised by Khalil’s detention.

Ramzi Kassem, representing Khalil’s interests, said the student’s lawyers have been unable to have even a single attorney-client-privileged conversation with Khalil since he was taken into custody.

Kassem told Furman that Khalil was “identified, targeted and detained” because of his advocacy for Palestinian rights and his protected speech. He said Khalil has no criminal convictions, but, “for some reason, is being detained.”

Furman ordered that Khalil be able to have at least one attorney-client phone call with his lawyers on Wednesday and at least one phone conference with his attorneys on Thursday.

Full article:  https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-protests-mahmoud-kha...

Mahmoud Khalil's Story

https://youtube.com/shorts/ofkTS3ZW0Us?si=X47H7mK2wEUMUdRc

He got a great legal team.

On the docket: Amy Greer, Baher Azmy, Diala Shamas, Ramzi Kassem, Kyle Barron (at legal aid), Samah Sisay, Shezza Dallal

https://chuffed.org/project/justice-for-mahmoud-khalil

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