Mahmoud Khalil, one of the leaders Anti-Israel Protests at Columbia University will remain in custody last year after hearing at the Manhattan Federal Court on Wednesday.
District judge Jesse Furman from the US District Court for Southern District of New York earlier ordered that the 30-year-old would not be deported, while the court was considering the legal challenge brought by his lawyers.
Furman said on Wednesday that his order not to deport Khalil was not based on the merit of the case, which is yet to be heard. The judge spoke during hearing for the schedule of submission regarding Khalil’s custody While protesters Carrying Palestinian flags and signs of the assembled outside and asked for his release.
Khalil is in Louisiana after being arrested by ICE agents at his university apartment on the upper west side of the city on Saturday. Agents told him to revoke his green map and a student visa, according to Khalil’s lawyers.
Mahmoud Khalil, one of the leaders of Anti-Israeli protests at Columbia University last year, will remain in custody on ice after hearing at the Manhattan Federal Court on Wednesday. (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton, Left and Getty Images)
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Federal government lawyers claimed that the place of the case was moved from New York to Louisian or New Jersey – two locations where he was held since Ice detained Ice over the weekend.
Brandon Waterman, represented by the Ministry of Justice, claimed that Khalil did not in New York or New Jersey when the initial proposals were submitted and New York is not an appropriate place.
Khalil’s lawyer, Ramsi Kassem, said they did not see the government papers, but they want the case to be transferred to New Jersey, because he was Khalil there when the proposal was submitted.
People show on the eve of hearing about the detention of Mahmoud Khalil in New York, March 12, 2025. Khalil was detained by Ice over the weekend and said he had been taken away by a green card. (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)
Kassem said that access to his client is seriously limited and seeks “normal” access to his client because it inhibits their ability to work on that case. Referee He said he was inclined to provide a privileged access to Khalil and today awarded one privileged call and one call.
FURMAN, calling legal questions “important and important”, asked two sides to hand over a joint letter on Friday, describing when proposing to submit written arguments about the legal issues launched by Khalil’s custody.
Kassem told Furman that Khalil was “identified, targeted and detained” for his advocacy of Palestinian rights and protected speech. He said Khalil had no criminal belief, but “for some reason he dated.”
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Khalilil’s lawyers intend to submit a modified petition. They want an accelerated schedule to hear a case of merit and have to handle by 9pm with a response by noon on Friday.
Khalil, Palestinian grew up in Syria and a permanent American resident, is married to an American citizen who is currently pregnant for eight months.
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The Homeland Security Ministry announced that he conducted an arrest to protect US national security and claimed that Khalil was “led by activities aligned with Hamas, a particular terrorist organization.”
Mahmoud Khalil, left and protesters earlier this week, right. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, Left, Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, right.)
Khalil played a The main role in protests against Israel who was swinging the Columbia University last year and met with university officials on behalf of Apartheid University of Columbia, a group of student groups who prayed university to subtract from Israel, CNN said.
The Karolina Leavitt White House Secretary defended the decision of Trump’s administration to arrest and claims that he distributed the propaganda flyers in the campus.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
