Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi — detained by authorities at his naturalization interview — is free for now. He had been in prison for two weeks after his arrest earlier in April.

For decades, Columbia University rejected the evidence of its political extremism as a conservative smear job and said academic freedom was priceless. But when the Trump administration pressed the ...

While attending Columbia, Mahdawi organized demonstrations protesting the war in Israel. He did so from October 2023 to March 2024. Police were not involved in the protests until the following April.

Mohsen Mahdawi is a Columbia University student and Palestinian activist who was arrested in Vermont by immigration agents last month at what he was told would be a citizenship interview.

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April 30 (UPI) -- Columbia University student and DHS detainee Mohsen Mahdawi was released from federal custody Wednesday after a judge ordered it for the outspoken critic of Israel's war in Gaza ...

Student who helped lead Columbia’s pro-Palestinian protests arrested in Vermont at citizenship interview By Paul Heintz Globe Correspondent, Updated April 15, 2025, 9:28 a.m. 355 ...

A Columbia University student detained by authorities at his naturalization interview is free - for now. A federal judge in Vermont ordered Mohsen Mahdawi released on bond today. He'd been in prison ...