"I am saying it clear and loud to President #Trump and his Cabinet, I am not afraid of you."

Columbia University student protester Mohsen Mahdawi released from federal custody - UPI.com https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/04/30/Vermont-Mohsen-Mahdawi-custody-released-ICE-Columbia-University/7991746034142/

#uspol #freeMahdawi #dueprocess #ICE

Harvard University punished with $2b funding freeze for defying Trump

Freeze followed a letter sent on Monday to the Trump administration saying it rejects the government’s demands

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 15 April 2025 21:30 BST

"The freeze, representing 35.9 percent of #Harvard's $6.4bn operating expenses, immediately followed a letter on Monday from #HarvardUniversity lawyers to the #Trump administration, stating that it rejected the government’s demands.

The letter, issued by Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and LLP King & Spalding LLP, said that “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”"

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/harvard-university-punished-2b-funding-freeze-defying-trump

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#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
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#Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by #ICE

A green card holder, #ColumbiaUniversity protest leader #MohsenMahdawi faced attacks from pro-#Israel activists.

By Akela Lacy, April 14, 2025

"Mohsen K. Mahdawi arrived at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in #ColchesterVT, on Monday. A Palestinian student at Columbia University, he hoped that, after 10 years in the U.S., he would pass the test to become a naturalized citizen.
Instead, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him and began the process to deport him to the occupied West Bank. #Mahdawi, a leader of the campus protest movement against Israel’s war on Gaza, became yet another green card holder arrested and facing removal.

"'#MohsenMahdawi was unlawfully detained today for no reason other than his Palestinian identity,' Mahdawi’s attorney Luna Droubi said in a statement to The Intercept. 'He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech.'

"Mahdawi’s lawyers filed a habeas corpus petition on Monday morning challenging the legality of his detention, alleging the government was violating his statutory and #DueProcess rights by punishing him for speech related to Palestine and Israel. The filing said it appears that Mahdawi was facing deportation under the obscure provision used in other recent cases that gives Secretary of State #MarcoRubio the right to unilaterally declare immigrants as threats to American foreign policy."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/14/ice-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-interview/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/Z0lNh

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'Immoral, Inhumane, and Illegal': #ICE Arrests Palestinian #Columbia Protest Leader

"He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech," said Mohsen Mahdawi's lawyer.

from #CommonDreams
Julia Conley
Apr 14, 2025

"A month after the international far-right pro-Israel group #Betar named #ColumbiaUniversity student #MohsenMahdawi as the next target in its campaign to push for the deportation of #Palestinian rights defenders, #Mahdawi was arrested Monday at an immigration office in Colchester, Vermont, where he had arrived to complete a test to be a naturalized U.S. citizen. "

https://www.commondreams.org/news/mohsen-mahdawi

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#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#FreeMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
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#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
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