Khalil was born and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria and came to the US on a student visa in 2022, getting his US permanent residency green card last year.

Mahmoud Khalil's arrest has sparked a massive controversy and an online debate, with critics calling it an attack on free speech and authoritarian overreach, while supporters argue it is justified.

President Donald Trump campaigned as a champion of free speech, but First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom ...

Protesters denounced the fascist actions of the Trump administration and the complicity of the Democratic Party in the Gaza genocide and Khalil’s detention.

Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, an Iranian-born academic who became Deputy Director of the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project at ...

In a forceful statement this past Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed the situation surrounding Mahmoud ...

The arrest of the student who organized anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia University has provoked an escalating row ...

A heated debate over free speech and federal policy is unfolding at universities nationwide, including the University of Texas at Austin. Studen ...

Mahmoud Khalil will remain detained in Louisiana until at least next week but can finally speak to lawyers while they fight the Trump administration’s plans to deport the Columbia University graduate ...

Mahmoud Khalil will remain in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana for now following a procedural hearing in New York.

An arrested demonstrator sits in a New York Police Department (NYPD) van during a protest against the Donald Trump ...

Two days before U.S. agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student and Palestinian activist asked his wife ...