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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Joanna Walters, Maya Yang in New York and agencies

Mahmoud Khalil ‘felt as though he was being kidnapped’, lawyers say

Mahmoud Khalil felt as though he was being kidnapped when he was handcuffed and shackled and rushed from New York to immigration detention in Louisiana last weekend, his lawyers wrote in an updated lawsuit demanding that the Columbia University graduate be released from custody immediately.

The activist has told his lawyers that agents who arrested him at his university housing last Saturday night, in front of his eight-month pregnant wife, never identified themselves.

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