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Mohsen Mahdawi, released from Ice custody, graduates from Columbia

person wearing glasses, light blue graduation robe, black-and-white scarf and striped light blue tie shakes hands with someone
Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi walks the graduation stage at Columbia University in New York, on Monday. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, released just more than two weeks ago from federal detention, crossed the graduation stage on Monday to cheers from his fellow graduates.

The Palestinian activist was arrested by immigration authorities in Colchester, Vermont, while attending a naturalization interview. He was detained and ordered to be deported by the Trump administration on 14 April despite not being charged with a crime.

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