Detained Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi says he’s ‘in good hands’ Mahdawi, a Columbia University student now held in a Vermont, US prison, says he has faith in the ‘ability of justice’. Al Jazeera · Apr 22, 2025
Detained Palestinian activist in Vermont prison says he's 'in good hands,' focused on peacemaking 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 The Independent UK · Apr 22, 2025
Columbia student activist detained by ICE was denied leave for the birth of his son, wife says Mahmoud Khalil remains inside a Louisiana detention center as the Trump administration fights for his removal from the country The Independent UK · Apr 22, 2025
Detained US university student misses son's birth after release plea rejected Mahmoud Khalil, 30, has been held in detention since early March over his involvement in last year's pro-Palestinian campus protests. Euronews · Apr 22, 2025
Palestinian activist Khalil denied release for son’s birth, wife says Mahmoud Khalil’s wife Noor Abdalla accuses US government of trying to silence pro-Palestinian activism. Al Jazeera · Apr 22, 2025
Wife of detained Columbia activist says her husband was denied release for his son's birth The wife of detained Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil is accusing federal immigration officials of purposely denying a request for her husband to attend the birth of their first child so the family would suffer The Independent UK · Apr 22, 2025
Lawful permanent residents like Mahmoud Khalil have a right to freedom of speech – but does that protect them from deportation? The Trump administration has revoked the visas of more than 1,000 foreign university students since January 2025. Many of the individual cases that have made headlines center on foreign-born university students who participated in Palestinian rights protests. The Conversation · Apr 21, 2025
Massachusetts governor calls Trump’s attacks on Harvard ‘bad for science’ Maura Healey says president targeting universities hurts US ‘competitiveness’ and affects research and hospitals The Guardian - US · Apr 20, 2025
Denied, detained, deported: the faces of Trump’s immigration crackdown The administration has torn up the rulebook as it seeks to implement a hardline agenda to expel people from the US The Guardian - US · Apr 18, 2025
US revokes nearly 1,700 student visas: Who are the targets? Hundreds of students have had their visas cancelled and find themselves in limbo. Some have been arrested. Al Jazeera · Apr 18, 2025
The Crackdown on Campuses Is a Crackdown on Unions Many students losing visas and research funding are union members. Some in the labor movement are pushing back. Capital & Main · Apr 17, 2025
Pseudonymity Allowed (for Now) in Lawsuit Against Palestinian Student Groups But one of the pro-pseudonymity decisions on which the court relies (which also involved a lawsuit alleging anti-Semitic behavior) was actually reversed two weeks ago. Reason · Apr 17, 2025
Trump Says 'Joke' Harvard Should Be Stripped Of Funds President Donald Trump called Harvard a "joke" Wednesday and said it should lose its government research contracts after the top US university refused to accept demands to come under outside political supervision. International Business Times · Apr 16, 2025
Why Harvard Just Said No to Trump — And What It Means for Other American Universities Harvard's resistance towards Trump's attempt to control the education system is already influencing how other elite universities respond to his administration's demands. International Business Times UK · Apr 16, 2025
International Business Times UK · Apr 15, 2025 Columbia Student Mohsen Mahdawi Detained: Everything You Need To Know Mohsen Mahdawi, a student and Pro-Gaza protestor at Columbia University, was arrested by ICE despite having a green card for the past 10 years.
Fortune · Apr 15, 2025 Harvard's defiance of Trump's 'authoritarian incursion' supported by over 80 past and present college and university presidents Harvard president Alan Garber refused demands made by the Trump admin, which said it will freeze more than $2 billion in grants in response.
The Independent UK · Apr 15, 2025 A look at the universities with federal funding targeted by the Trump administration Harvard University has joined the growing list of institutions targeted by the Trump administration for federal funding cuts
Al Jazeera · Apr 15, 2025 US detains Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi at citizenship interview Mahdawi’s lawyer says Columbia University student detained as ‘retaliation’ for pro-Palestinian stance.
The Independent UK · Apr 14, 2025 Columbia student activist and green card holder arrested during citizenship interview Mohsen Mahdawi is among latest Palestinian international students targeted by Trump administration for their activism
International Business Times · Apr 14, 2025 Palestinian Student Detained At US Citizenship Interview US immigration authorities on Monday arrested another Columbia University student who participated in pro-Palestinian campus protests, detaining him as he attended an interview to become an American citizen.
Latin Times · Apr 14, 2025 WATCH: Columbia Student Throws Up Peace Signs While Being Detained at Citizenship Appointment Despite Green Card Status Mohsen Madawi, a friend of Mahmoud Khalil, is the latest Columbia University student to be targeted by the Trump administration for expressing anti-Israel views.
The Independent UK · Apr 14, 2025 Trump administration slashes $2.2bn in federal money from Harvard after it refuses president’s ‘dictates’ ‘The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,’ said a letter from Harvard’s lawyers.’ No private university ‘can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government’
The Guardian - US · Apr 14, 2025 Mohsen Mahdawi, Palestinian green-card holder and Columbia student, detained by Ice Mahdawi was at a naturalization interview in Vermont when he was taken in move his lawyers say is ‘retaliation’
The Guardian - US · Apr 14, 2025 Harvard says it will not ‘yield’ to Trump demands over $9bn in funding cuts In a message, the university’s president said it will not ‘surrender its independence’ amid crackdown on education
The Independent UK · Apr 14, 2025 Why Trump is jailing student activists in Louisiana, where thousands of immigrants are detained in private prisons Inside the state’s sprawling and remote ICE detention centers, immigrants feel like they’re ‘screaming into a void’ thousands of miles from home, lawyers and advocates tell Alex Woodward