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US appeals court overturns order releasing pro-Palestinian protester Mahdawi
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Mohsen Mahdawi speaks outside the courthouse after a US judge released the Palestinian student activist on April 30, 2025 in Burlington, Vermont. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)
A US appeals court overturns a lower court’s 2025 ruling that ordered the Trump administration to release pro-Palestinian protester Mohsen Mahdawi from immigration detention.
Mahdawi, a student at Columbia University, was arrested in April 2025 upon arriving for an interview for his US citizenship petition. A judge swiftly ordered the Trump administration not to deport him from the US or take him out of the state of Vermont.
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