What to know about activist Mahmoud Khalil and his release from . . . Khalil, a legal U S resident, was then taken to an immigration detention center in Jena, a remote part of Louisiana thousands of miles from his attorneys and his wife The 30-year-old international affairs student had served as a negotiator and spokesperson for student activists at Columbia University who took over a campus lawn to protest the war
Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil freed from immigration detention JENA, La (AP) — Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday from federal immigration detention, freed after 104 days by a judge’s ruling after becoming a symbol of President Donald Trump ’s clampdown on campus protests The former Columbia University graduate student left a federal facility in Louisiana on Friday He is expected to head to New York to reunite with his U S