Mahmoud Khalil has sued the Trump administration for $20 million after spending months in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention. The pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University ...

The claim alleges Khalil was falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an antisemite as the government sought to deport him over his prominent role in campus protests.

Immigration agents arrested the pro-Palestinian activist and legal U.S. permanent resident, who said he was being punished for political speech.

One month after his release from ICE detention, Palestinian rights activist Mahmoud Khalil visited Capitol Hill to demand an ...

Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil exited an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Louisiana on Friday night, after a federal judge ordered his release while his ...

Noor Abdalla leaves a court hearing for her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, in Newark, New Jersey, on March 28, 2025. KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images ...

On that night, he said he was returning home from dinner with his wife, Noor Abdalla, when he was “effectively kidnapped” by plainclothes federal agents, who refused to provide a warrant and ...

JENA, La. (AP) — Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday from federal immigration detention, freed by a judge’s ruling after becoming a symbol of President Donald Trump ’s clampdown on ...

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil joins The Weekend: Primetime alongside his wife Dr. Noor Abdalla in an exclusive interview following his release from immigration detention. In a preview ...

Mahmoud Khalil, center, reacts alongside his wife, Noor Abdalla, right, upon arriving at Newark International Airport , Saturday, June 21, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ...

Khalil was not accused of breaking any laws during the protests at Columbia. However the administration has said noncitizens who participate in such demonstrations should be expelled from the country ...