An American federal judge ordered, on Wednesday, April 30, the release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student involved in the Movement at Columbia University and arrested during his naturalization interview, in mid-April.
Born in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank and holder of a “green card” of permanent resident in the United States since 2015, he had been arrested on April 14 by immigration agents in an office where he had come to an interview for the acquisition of American citizenship.
“I say it loud and clear to President Trump and his government: I am not afraid of you”he launched Wednesday before a Vermont court, after his release ordered by the courts pending a decision on the merits of his file.
This release is accompanied by conditions to reside in the Vermont and to go to New York only for his studies, to meet his lawyers, or to the express authorization of the judge.
“Why did they stop me?” Because I spoke and said no to war, yes to peace ”he added.
Mohsen Mahdawi, 34, is a co-founder of a group of Palestinian students at New York University Columbia, with Mahmoud Khalil, a figure in Propalestinian student mobilization in the United States, which the Trump administration has been trying to expel since its arrest on March 8.
“Serious injustice”
“It’s an important first step”comment in a press release three American elected officials from Vermont, including Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders, “Relled” of the liberation of the thirty -year -old student who “Never should have lived this serious injustice”. “We will continue the fight against the assaults of President Trump against the rule of law”that they describe as“Unworthy and immoral”they assure.
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On a video shot by one of his friends on the day of his arrest, we see the young man, handcuffed, to make the V of victory while agents hiding their face, one of which bearing a marked jacket of the Ministry of Internal Security, lead him to a vehicle.
Another federal judge had decided on April 14 that Mohsen Mahdawi could not be expelled from the American territory or led to the state until further notice – which has happened to other foreign students arrested.
Donald Trump takes it hard in American universities, Columbia and Harvard in mind, accusing them of having left prosper “Anti -Semitism” On their campuses during the student mobilization against the war in Gaza led by Israel after the attack on Hamas on October 7, 2023. And, like Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi, other foreign students who participated in the demonstrations against the war in Gaza were arrested and targeted by procedures of expulsion by the American authorities.