Mahdawi, a student at Columbia University who is now detained in a prison in Vermont in the United States, says he has faith in the “skill of justice.”
A Palestinian man who directed peaceful protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza as a student at Columbia University, and was recently arrested during an interview about the completion of his US citizenship, has said that he is “in good hands” in Vermont prison. Be.
Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident of the United States, was arrested on April 14 in Colchester, Vermont. Hello Monday with the American senator Peter Welch of Vermont, a Democrat.
The administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has been taking energetic measures against pro-palestinian activities. In the first week of his presidency, Trump promised to deport the students who joined the protests against the Israel War against Gaza that swept the American university campuses last year.
“I stay positive by reassuring myself in the ability of justice and the deep belief of democracy,” Mahdawi said in the Welch video published in X. “This is the Reasson who wanted to become a citizen of this country, because I believe in the principles.” “”
I with Mohsen Mahdawi today.
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– Senator Peter Welch (@senpeterwelch) April 21, 2025
Welch’s office said Mahdawi was being arrested at the Northwest State Correctional Center at St Albans, Vermont. Your case is scheduled for a state conference on Wednesday. His lawyers have asked for their release.
The United States Department of Justice has not said why it is being arrested. The New York Times reported on April 15 that the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, wrote a memorandum that says that Mahdawi’s activities could “undermine” the peace process of the Middle East. Rubio did not provide any evidence of this.
Rubio has cited a statute rarely used to justify the deportation of the graduate student of Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil. It gives the United States the power to deport those who raise “potentially serious advertisers for the United States.”
Khalil says he is a political prisoner. Hey, his son was also lost after rejecting temporary liberation to attend the birth, his wife Noor Abdalla said Monday.
Abdalla said that he gave birth to the first son of the couple in New York without Khalil present after the application of immigration and customs (ICE) of the United States, he made the “previous decision” of making his family suffer.
An immigration judge ruled that Khalil can be expelled from the country as a national security risk, after lawyers argued the legality of deporting the activist who participated in pro-palestinian demonstrations. Your lawyer’s plan to appeal.
An immigration judge of the United States in the state of Louisiana ruled last week that Khalil, who was arrested last month, can be deported, establishing a precedent for the administration to be processed to their efforts to deport foreign students, despite the fact that they are lens and remarkable.
Trump has also threatened to stop federal funds for schools, conferences and universities if they allow what he called “illegal protests.”
In other cases of high profile, immigration officers have stopped and tried to deport Rumeysa Ozturb, a student at Tufts University of Turkiye, and Columbia student Yunnseo Chung, who is a permanent resident of the United States from South Korea.