Detained #Columbia student #MohsenMahdawi speaks from prison
[on April 29, before he was freed on April 30]
from #NPR #NationalPublicRadio [USA]
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5377484
#StopGazaGenocide
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#ICE
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
⚠️ WARNING: This may be triggering for victims of state violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRMIrgdnO_U
EXCLUSIVE: #ProPalestineStudents RAIDED by #MichiganStatePolice
No search warrant, fyi.
D.A. #DanaNessel, #SHANDA !! 😡
#FreePalestineNOW 🇵🇸 #FascistUSA #ProtestIsNOTACrime #MI #Michigan
#Democratic lawmakers call for release of #Tufts student from #ICE detention
Jim McGovern and Ayanna Pressley exhort authorities to free Rümeysa Öztürk, calling her treatment ‘repression’
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Anna Betts
Fri 25 Apr 2025 13.02 EDT
A group of high-profile Democratic lawmakers has called on the Donald #Trump administration to immediately release the #TuftsUniversity graduate student #RümeysaÖztürk, praised her “unwavering spirit” and warned that the White House is engaging in “repression”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/trump-tufts-rumeysa-ozturk-ice?CMP=share_btn_url
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
mentioned n the #WIRED video
Records Show #DC and Federal Law Enforcement Sharing Surveillance Info on #RacialJusticeProtests
15 May 2024
Michigan's #Democratic AG Under Fire After Armed Agents Raid Homes of Palestine Defenders
"We are totally convinced that, but for their viewpoints, these students would not have been targeted," said one attorney.
from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Apr 23, 2025
" Federal and local law enforcement officers smashed their way into the #Michigan homes of pro-#Palestine student organizers on Wednesday in what the state attorney general's office said was a vandalism probe—but critics called an attack on dissent against #Israel's genocidal assault on #Gaza. "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/michigan-raids-palestine
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#StopGazaGenocide
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #DanaNessel #Trump
#news #press @palestine
FBI fascists and local oinkers 🐷 raided the homes of #UniversityOfMichigan #PalestinianRightsActvists in #AnnArbor, #Ipsilante, and Canton on Wednesday.
The targets of the raids participated in campus nonviolent #antiwar protests.
Disgrace to the #queer community :pride: , traitor to humanity and #zionazi, Attorney General #DanaNessel, claims they're part of a 'vandalism investigation' 🤨 (#wtf?)
The CouncilOnAmericanIslamicRelations #CAIR : 'Peaceful dissent is NOT a crime'
No search warrant was provided. Trigger warning for #PTSD victims of police violence. Please take care ☮️ .
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p4hbf4KPLpk (video provided by the #TAHRIRCoalition and #DemocracyNow)
(SOURCE for story: DemocracyNow)
‘National disgrace’: US lawmakers decry student detentions on visit to Ice jails
Delegation visits jails where #MahmoudKhalil and #RümeysaÖztürk are being held and denounce ‘authoritarian’ #Trump
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Dani Anguiano
Tue 22 Apr 2025 20.31 EDT
"#Öztürk, a #TuftsUniversity PhD student, and #Khalil, a graduate of #Columbia, have been detained for more than a month since US immigration authorities took them into custody. Neither have been accused of criminal conduct and are being held in violation of their constitutional rights, members of the delegation said."
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press
'Do You Realize That This Is Kafkaesque?':
#Trump's Attacks on Foreign Students Stun Judges
"Disenrolling students was already a blatant capitulation, and now it is a wholly inexcusable one," said one attorney.
from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Apr 22, 2025
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-student-visas
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#Release Rümeysa Öztürk
#StopTheDeportations
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#ProtestIsNotACrime
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#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press
Detained #Turkish student must be transferred from #Louisiana for hearing, judge rules
#RümeysaÖztürk was taken by #immigration officials over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for op-ed
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
via #TheGuardian
Fri 18 Apr 2025 18.40 EDT
"A federal judge on Friday ordered that a #Turkish #TuftsUniversity student detained by immigration authorities in Louisiana be brought to #Vermont by 1 May for a hearing over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for an op-ed piece she co-wrote in the student newspaper."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/tufts-student-judge-hearing?CMP=share_btn_url
#Release Rümeysa Öztürk
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
"Come for one, face us all."
from #TheWire
[online publication of #JewishVoiceForPeace #JVP in #USA]
"Desperate to crush popular and growing opposition to #Israel’s genocide, the #Trump regime is shredding our First Amendment rights.
But we’re not backing down. Shortly after Mohsen was arrested, over a thousand Jews and allies gathered for an emergency Passover seder outside ICE headquarters in NYC to demand his and other student activists’ release.
Our message is clear: “Come for one, face us all.”"
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/04/16/come-for-one-face-us-all/
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#repression
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press
@palestine @israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G4G-ue4Mr0
U.S. Republicans STILL Getting Ruthlessly Mocked and Berated at #TownHalls
#NancyMaceOUT #MarjorieTaylorGreeneOUT
#FascistUSA #ACABGeorgia #JailInsideTraders
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
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#FreeMahdawi
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#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine
#AlJazeeraLIVE 🚨 🚨 #ALERT 🚨 🚨
🔴 #MohsenMahdawi is another kidnapped #Palestinian #student from #ColumbiaUniversity
#StopTheKidnappings #StopDeportations
#ALERT Contempt of Court!!! Start arresting these #fascists in the Trump admin!
#AbolishICE
#ArrestHoman
#ArrestMarkRubio
#ArrestPamBondi
#ArrestMAGAfascists
'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
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#FreeMahdawi
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#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
A Palestinian activist expecting a US citizenship interview is arrested instead by #ICE in Vermont
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER
Updated 6:04 PM EDT, April 14, 2025
"A #Palestinian man who led protests against the war in #Gaza as a student at #ColumbiaUniversity was arrested Monday at a Vermont immigration office where he expected to be interviewed about finalizing his U.S. citizenship, his attorneys said.
Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident who has held a green card since 2015, was detained at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester by #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement agents, his lawyers said. "
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech #StopTheDeportations
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
Pro-#Palestinian protester’s lawyer stopped and searched at US border: ‘They were going to take my device’
Amir Makled says immigration officials questioned him about his phone’s contents. Experts warn fourth amendment rights have been weakened at the border
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Johana Bhuiyan
Sat 12 Apr 2025 08.00 EDT
"#AmirMakled thought he was being racially profiled. A Lebanese American who was born and raised in Detroit, the attorney was returning home from a family vacation in the Dominican Republic when he said an immigration official at the Detroit Metro airport asked for a “TTRT” agent after scanning his passport on Sunday. Makled said the expression on the agent’s face changed. He felt something “odd” was happening."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/12/amir-makled-phone-search-border-immigration?CMP=share_btn_url
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#CivilLiberties
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#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvAl2r90uc
#MahmoudKhalil case: U.U. Judge to Rule on #Deportation of #PalestinianStudent
Judge gives Trump administration deadline to justify Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation
Jamee Comans said if evidence does not support deportation, she may rule for #Columbia graduate’s release
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Delaney Nolan in Jena, Louisiana
Tue 8 Apr 2025 17.04 EDT
"An #immigration judge ruled on Tuesday that the #Trump administration has until 5pm on Wednesday to present evidence as to why #MahmoudKhalil, the #Palestinian activist and #ColumbiaUniversity graduate, should be deported. She said that if the evidence does not support deportation, she may rule on Friday on his release from immigration detention."
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine
Mahmoud Khalil says his arrest was part of ‘Columbia’s repression playbook’
Green-card holder and activist led campus pro-Palestinian rallies and is now fighting Trump effort to deport him
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Edward Helmore
Sat 5 Apr 2025 18.17 EDT
#MahmoudKhalil, the #Columbia University student activist who led campus pro-#Palestinian rallies and is now resisting the #Trump administration’s deportation efforts, has accused the university of laying “the groundwork for my abduction” and called on the student body to continue demonstrations and protests.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university?CMP=share_btn_url
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
