detainee discharged
Columbia protest leader Mohsen Mahdawi released from detention
Upon being released on bail, Mahdawi said, ‘To my people in Palestine: I feel your pain, I see your suffering, and I see freedom and it is very very soon’
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Supporters hold up signs behind U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) during a rally held by Congress members in support of detained Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi in front of the State Department on April 29, 2025 in Washington, DC.
A federal judge in Vermont ordered the immediate release on Wednesday of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University who helped organize campus anti-Israel demonstrations.
Mahdawi, a 34-year-old green card holder born and raised in the West Bank...