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BREAKING: CAIR Welcomes Judge’s Ruling that Detained Anti-Genocide Activist Mahmoud Khalil Must Be Released [1]

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Date: 2025-06

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed a federal judge’s ruling that anti-genocide activist and legal U.S. resident Mahmoud Khalil must be released from detention.

SEE: Judge says government must release Columbia University protester Mahmoud Khalil – AP

Khalil was detained in March, the first arrest in the Trump administration’s crackdown on students who protested Israel’s genocide in Gaza. His wife gave birth to their first child while he was being held by the government in Louisiana.

In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:

“We welcome this ruling as yet another example of our nation’s judicial system pushing back against the Trump administration’s unconstitutional effort to silence all those who speak out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and against our government’s unconscionable complicity with that genocide. Mahmoud Khalil’s unlawful and cruel detention deprived him of his liberty and of being with his wife when she gave birth to their first child. This government’s war on First Amendment rights must be challenged by all Americans who value free speech and the Constitution.”

He noted that CAIR previously condemned the detention of Mahmoud Khalil.

SEE: CAIR Condemns ICE Refusal to Allow Mahmoud Khalil to Attend His Son’s Birth an ‘Act of Sheer Cruelty’

BREAKING: CAIR Says Louisiana Immigration Judge’s ‘Dangerous, Unconstitutional’ Ruling on Mahmoud Khalil Must Not Stand

CAIR also filed suit against Columbia University on behalf of Khalil.

SEE: BREAKING: CAIR-NY, CAIR, Dratel and Lewis Announce Lawsuit on Behalf of Mahmoud Khalil, Others Against House Committee and Columbia U for Compelled Disclosure of Private Student Records

Last month, CAIR similarly welcomed the recognition by a federal judge that the portion of an immigration law used by the Trump administration to detain Khalil is likely unconstitutional.

Also in May, CAIR welcomed an order by a federal judge demanding the release of Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was snatched from the street by masked ICE agents apparently because she co-wrote an editorial calling for her school to divest from the Israeli government over its genocide in Gaza.

CAIR also welcomed a judge’s order to release Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri, who was arrested and detained by ICE, apparently due to his wife’s connections to Gaza and criticism of the Israeli government’s genocide.

In April, CAIR welcomed a federal court’s order to release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a permanent United States resident and green card holder from the illegally-occupied West Bank, who was arrested by immigration authorities in Vermont.

CAIR chapters nationwide have spoken out against the campaign to silence criticism of Israel’s genocide.

CAIR’s mission is to protect civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.

La misión de CAIR es proteger las libertades civiles, mejorar la comprensión del Islam, promover la justicia, y empoderar a los musulmanes en los Estados Unidos.

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CONTACT: Afaf Nasher, Esq., CAIR-NY Executive Director, [email protected], 917-669-4006;

CAIR-NY Communications Team, [email protected]; CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, [email protected]; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, [email protected]; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, [email protected]; CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, [email protected]

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