The Trump regime detained Leqaa Kordia, a young woman from New Jersey, for an entire year for using her constitutional right to protest Israel's genocide in Gaza.

At a hearing Friday, the judge said "I’ve heard testimony. I’ve seen thousands of pages of evidence presented by the respondent, and very little evidence presented by the government in any of this."

Monday she was released.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/3/16/pro-palestine-protester-leqaa-kordia-freed-from-us-immigration-detention

Pro-Palestine protester Leqaa Kordia freed from US immigration detention

The 33-year-old Columbia University protester had been held in an immigration detention centre for a year.

Al Jazeera

@randahl did she get compensated for the wrongful detainment and being innocently targeted and prosecuted?

#USpol #fascism #1A #USA #PoliceState

@kkarhan @randahl

if she gets a lawyer she can try. it would take awhile but it's worth pursuing. there's even lawyers who would take her pro bono because her case would be legally significant

@benroyce @randahl yeah, cuz I'm used to systems where people at least have recourse against wrongful imprisonment and at least get paid comensation for the time wrongfully in jail...

@kkarhan @randahl

there's lawyers and orgs that do pro bono work because it's a prominent case or legally interesting. for their careers or in service of the community. unfortunately this means if the case isn't legally interesting, or if the case doesn't receive prominent coverage, and they are poor, people can be screwed

@benroyce @kkarhan @randahl

Also, what are the odds that she'll get kidnapped by ICE?

@BillySmith @benroyce @randahl I mean, I know people that already fled the U.S. due to fearing getting forcibly disappeared by the Trump - Regime…

@kkarhan @benroyce @randahl

They've been deliberately targetting people in Minneapolis and Minnesota for helping.

This would be the same M.O.

@kkarhan @benroyce @randahl

It's the same way that the organisers of the Jackson protests all died within 5 years afterwards, either shot by police, lynched, or the curator of the Jackson Museum of Black History, an 80 year-old woman, who was found shot dead in the trunk of a car.

It's been happening for decades already, but we are only hearing about it now, as it's being aimed at white people. :|

@kkarhan @benroyce @randahl Of course the money for this will not come from the people who caused it.