Judge Says He Will Order Ex-Columbia Student Khalil Freed From Detention
Mahmoud Khalil on the Columbia University campus in New York in 2024.
Photographer: Ted Shaffrey/AP Photo
JENA, La. (AP) — Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday from federal immigration detention, freed after 104 days by a judge’s ruling after becoming a symbol of President Donald Trump ’s clampdown on campus protests.
The former Columbia University graduate student left a federal facility in Louisiana on Friday. He is expected to head to New York to reunite with his U.S. citizen wife and infant son, born while Khalil was detained.