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Anna Betts

Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi freed after federal judge orders release

a man smiles while holding a microphone as people stand behind him
Mohsen Mahdawi speaks outside the courthouse after a judge released him in Burlington, Vermont, on Wednesday. Photograph: Amanda Swinhart/AP

Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green-card holder and Columbia University student who was detained for his activism, walked out of immigration detention on Wednesday after a federal judge in Vermont ordered his release.

Mahdawi had been detained and ordered deported by the Trump administration on 14 April despite not being charged with a crime.

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