Hundreds of people have crowded outside New York City Cortorroom to demand the release of Palestinian worker Mahmood KhalilThe arrest of the weekend and Sunday created protests and fears in the US free speech.
The protesters gathered outside Manhattan’s federal court for the first formal hearing in the Khalil case, as he faced a potential deportation of his activism.
“Now leave Mahmud Khalil!” They shouted.
Khalil’s lawyer Ramzi Kasame said during a brief hearing His client Only one call was allowed with his legal team from the arrested center in the South Louisiana state.
But Kasam said that the call was cut off in premature time and was on a line recorded and maintained by the government.
American District Judge Jessi Furman decided that Khalil and his lawyers should call a phone on Wednesday and the second Thursday, which means that the government would not get access to their conversation, which means that the government would not get access to their conversation.
On Monday, Furman temporarily blocked Khalil’s deportation.
Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 29 -year -old Colombia University graduates and US permanent resident Khalil.
ICE officials SAIDs said they have planned to withdraw their green card at the US State Department.
Khalil was at the forefront of Palestine supporters Demonstration Last year, at the University of Colombia, in which the students demanded the end of the Israeli war in the Gaza strip. He worked as a large number of spokesperson and talks.
But when they campaigned for the second term at the White House, US President Donald Trump Mortgage On October 223, the Palestine supporter of the Palestine supporters that have arisen after Israel launched a deadly war against Gaza and expelled any foreign students involved.
After taking office, he began to issue executive action that we would carry out our threats.
Trump said in the White House, “We pointed to all the residents of the jihadist-supporting protest: We pointed out to you: 225, we will find you and we will expel you,” Trump told the White House. The truth sheet??
“I will quickly cancel all the Hamas Simpethisers’ student visas on the college campus, who have had a fanatics never before.”
Trump recently welcomed Khalil’s arrest and said on Monday that he was the first of many of the coming ManY.
He has alleged that he was involved in the “terrorist, anti -sectic, anti -American, American anti -American activities.
But experts say that due to the arrest of Khalil, the US supporters have an increasing attack on supporting activism in the United States as well as the freedom of expression under the Trump administration.
“In objectively, what is happening is that the Republican Party is trying to calm all the public expression of Palestine’s human rights to calm the supporters of Israel’s right -minded,” Nadr Hashemi, a professor of Georgetown University, Told Al Jazira this week??
Legal question
The question has also been asked on a legal basis for the possession of Khalil.
White House press secretary Carolin Levit told reporters on Tuesday State Secretary Marco Rubio If Rubio determines its presence in the United States against the interests of the country’s national security and foreign policy, Khalil’s green card can be withdrawn.
Citing the Government documents of Khalil’s civil charges, the Washington Post on Wednesday said that Rubio’s determination is the only justification of the Trump administration till now.
Separately, Rubio told reporters that Khalil’s case was “not about free speech”.
“This is about people who do not have the right to start in the United States,” the US top diplomat told reporters at Shannan Airport in Ireland after the journey of Saudi Arabia.
“No one has the right to a student visa. No one has the right of a green card, “said Rubio.
But while talking outside the Manhattan court, Khal’s lawyer Kasam told reporters that the Trump administration has thought that it seems that dissatisfaction seems to be not calm.
“It is not intended to use it Silence Palestine supporters speech Or any other speech that the government does not like, “said Kasas.
Khalil’s lawyers – Judge – Judge, who overseeed the case – ordered that his client should return from Louisiana to New York.
Reporting from New York on Wednesday afternoon, Al Jazzir’s Criston Salome said that Khalil’s legal squad argued that he should go back to the city because he was away from his lawyer and pregnant wife.
“And they have alleged that he is being targeted only because of the only support of Palestinian rights and demanding ending a genocide in Gaza,” Salome said.
At the hearing, the government lawyer Brandon Waterman said he had planned to challenge the Furman’s authority to decide the case.
Waterman said Khalil’s petition may have been admitted to Louisiana or New Jersey, where he was initially brought after arrest.
Referring to the legal issues “important and weighty”, Furman asked to submit a joint letter on Friday, describing when he proposed to submit a written argument about the legal issues taken by Khalil.