Peter RileyLeqaa Kordia was freed on March 16 after spending more than a year in an ICE jail in Texas; arrested in 2025 in the Trump regime’s campaign to target any who advocate for #Palestine rights.
Born in the occupied #WestBank now lives in #NewJersey. She was arrested in 2024 during the #Gaza #solidarity protests at #ColumbiaUniversity.
Part 1
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/3/leqaa_kordia_palestinian_activist
Part 2
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/3/freed_from_ice_jail_leqaa_kordia
Meet Leqaa Kordia: Palestinian Protester Freed After a Year in ”ICE Dungeon”
We speak with Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia, who was freed on March 16 after spending more than a year in an ICE jail in Texas. She was arrested in 2025 as part of the Trump administration’s campaign to target student activists and others who advocated for Palestinian rights. Kordia was born in the occupied West Bank and lives in New Jersey. She was arrested in 2024 during the Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University. The charges against her were dropped the next day, but she was detained in March 2025 by ICE during a routine immigration check-in. “It was supposed to be just a regular meeting with my lawyer [and the] ICE agents. It led to arrest,” says Kordia. “They took me in an unmarked car directly to the airport, and they had informed my lawyer that I’m going to upstate New York, but they took me to Texas instead.” While in custody, Kordia experienced destitute conditions at the Prairieland Detention Center, including overcrowding, inedible food, inadequate medical care, broken facilities, negligence by guards and more. “The detention center conditions and the ICE agents’ methods brought to my mind a lot of bad memories from the West Bank,” she says.
Quds News Network
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