The Latest Breaking News from Mahmoud Khalil

Secret police are a quintessential feature of authoritarian regimes. From Azerbaijan’s State Security Service to Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organisation, these agencies typically target political opponents and dissidents through covert surveillance, imprisonment and physical violence.

The administration's lawyers claim that this was justified by Khalil's likelihood of escape.

Jim McGovern and Ayanna Pressley exhort authorities to free Rümeysa Öztürk, calling her treatment ‘repression’

Homeland Security says its agent believed the student activist was trying to leave the scene of his arrest in New York - campaigners branded the claim ‘absurd’

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Delegation visits jails where Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk are being held and denounce ‘authoritarian’ Trump

Mahdawi, a Columbia University student now held in a Vermont, US prison, says he has faith in the ‘ability of justice’.

A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was recently arrested during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship says he’s “in good hands” at the Vermont prison where he's being held

Mahmoud Khalil remains inside a Louisiana detention center as the Trump administration fights for his removal from the country

Mahmoud Khalil, 30, has been held in detention since early March over his involvement in last year's pro-Palestinian campus protests.