I am a political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student arrested by US immigration officials, has claimed to be a political prisoner. The Palestinian youth compared the process of detaining immigrants in this way to Israel’s extrajudicial detention system. Mahmoud Khalil made these remarks in a statement sent from a detention center in Louisiana, USA, on Tuesday local time. This is his first public statement since his arrest. Khalil was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from his university residence last Saturday. In the statement, Khalil…
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