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Sara Braun in New York and agency

US judge blocks deportation of Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi

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Mohsen Mahdawi at a press conference in Vermont last year. Photograph: Alex Driehaus/AP

An immigration judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting Mohsen Mahdawi, a 34-year-old Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist who was arrested by federal agents last year during a US citizenship interview in Vermont.

Lawyers for Mahdawi gave details of the decision in a court filing on Tuesday with a federal appeals court in New York, which had been reviewing a ruling that led to his release from immigration custody in April.

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