What to know about activist Mahmoud Khalil and his release from immigration detention

Published June 21, 2025 11:54am ET



A Palestinian activist who participated in protests against Israel has been freed from federal immigration detention after 104 days.

Mahmoud Khalil, who became a symbol of President Donald Trump’s clampdown on campus protests, left a federal facility in Louisiana on Friday. The former Columbia University graduate student is expected to head to New York to reunite with his U.S. citizen wife and infant son, born while Khalil was detained.

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