Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi freed after federal judge orders release
by Anna Betts from US news | The Guardian on (#6WZB5)
Palestinian, a lawful permanent US resident, was detained and ordered deported despite not being charged with crime
Mohsen Mahdawi has walked out of immigration detention after a federal judge in Vermont ordered his release. The Palestinian green-card holder and student at Columbia University had been detained and ordered deported by the Trump administration on 14 April despite not being charged with a crime.
The two weeks of detention so far demonstrate great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime," said Geoffrey Crawford, a US district judge, at a hearing on Wednesday, according to ABC News. Mr Mahdawi, I will order you released."
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