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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Judge rejects Trump administration’s attempt to throw out lawsuit from arrested Palestinian Columbia student

A federal judge has denied the Trump administration's move to dismiss a case from Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student activist who was detained by immigration enforcement agents and jailed in Louisiana over his involvement in pro-Palestine demonstrations on campus.

Khalil is currently detained in a Louisiana facility, more than 1,300 miles from New York, and has been placed in deportation proceedings.

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