13/3/2025–|Last update: 03/13/202506:58 am (Mecca time)
A federal judge of New York extended the decision “to prohibit the expulsion” which he delivered earlier against the Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil, after being detained in the context of his leaders of university demonstrations in the United States against the Israeli war against Gaza.
Ramzi Qassem, Khalil’s lawyer, told a judge on Wednesday, on Wednesday, that he had been deprived of obtaining legal advice, noting that his client only spoke to lawyers through a surveillance line subject to Louisiana and has not yet been able to hold a long conversation with them.
Qasim added that Khalil “was arrested at night when he returned home with his wife and took a thousand kilometers in Louisiana,” noting that his client’s wife, an American citizen, was pregnant in the eighth month of their first child.
He added that Khalil “had been arrested and had expulsion because he defended the rights of the Palestinians,” asking for help to allow his client to meet his lawyer.
A call without censorship
Judge Jesse Foreman ordered Khalil to receive a daily call without observation.
A defense lawyer read a declaration by the wife of Khalil, in which he asked the United States government to release him and said that he had been kidnapped from his home and that he was ashamed to hold him because of his defense of the rights of his Palestinian people.
No decision has yet been issued concerning the expulsion or the legal question linked to the place of consideration of the case, as the government says either in New Jersey, where the expulsion procedures began or in Louisiana.
Friday, Judge Foreman set a final date for the government to present its legal arguments in the court, pending the program on Monday.
Apart from the session, hundreds protested to support Khalil and raised the Palestinian flags, while actress Susan Sarandon came to the court to support him.
The American authorities, Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate of the University of Colombia and one of the most important faces of the protest movement which broke out in response to the behavior of Israel during the war, was arrested before taking him to Louisiana and detained by the Department of Immigration and Customs at the end of the week.
The government has not cornered Khalil, but has only canceled its permanent residence because of its involvement in demonstrations.
His detention has made opponents of President Donald Trump as well as defenders of freedoms, some of whom are right – who consider that such a step can have frightening effects on freedom of expression.
On Wednesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied that detention was an attack on freedom of expression.
“Once you arrive in this country with such a student visa, we will cancel it” due to any support for the Islamic resistance movement (Hamas).
“If you end up with a green card, not a nationality, but the green card is caused by this visa, and even if you are here (you do) these activities, we will expel you.”
Deportation
In its announcement of Khalil’s arrest, the Ministry of Internal Security said it had acted on the “executive decrees of President Trump which prohibits anti-semitism and in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs”.
The White House spokeswoman Caroline Levette said on Tuesday that the authorities had presented a list of other Colombian students whom the administration intended to deport due to their presumed participation in the demonstrations.
She added that the university, which was cut off from federal funding of $ 400 million due to accusations that he did not face adequate anti-semitism, did not cooperate.
Last year, American universities experienced manifestations of generalized students against the Israeli war in Gaza, and some of them led to violent confrontations between the police and the anti-Israeli demonstrators.
President Donald Trump is committed to expeling foreign students who have demonstrated in support of the Palestinians. Trump and officials of the demonstrators were accused of supporting Hamas, classified as “terrorists” in the United States.
With American support, Israel was committed between October 7, 2023 and January 19, 2025, “group genocide” in Gaza which left more than 160,000 martyrs and injured Palestinians, most of them children and women, and more than 14,000 missing.