U.S. judge orders release of pro-Palestinian Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil

Khalil, a visible figure and a lead negotiator for protesters during last spring's Gaza solidarity encampment on the Columbia campus, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at his university-owned apartment in March

A U.S. judge ordered on Friday that Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil be released from the immigration detention center where he has been held since early March, in a major victory for rights groups that challenged what they called the Trump administration's unlawful targeting of a pro-Palestinian activist.

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