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Mahmoud Khalil in Colombia considered to be abducted as a detention, say the lawyers

Mahmoud Khalil in Colombia considered to be abducted as a detention, say the lawyers

NEW YORK “Locked and crowded, Mahmoud Khalil was in a hurry from New York to Louisiana last weekend, in a way that left Colombia University graduate, feeling that his lawyers wrote in an updated process, seeking his immediate release.

Lawyers described in detail what happened to Palestinian activist While transported to Louisiana by agents, he said he had never identified. Once he arrived there, he was left to sleep in a bunker without a pillow or blanket, while the top American officials checked the effort to deport a man as a man that sometimes became the “public face” of Student protests on Campus Colombia against Israel’s military actions in Gaza.

The late Thursday’s submission to the Federal Court of Manhattan was the result of Wednesday’s order of a federal judge to finally be allowed to talk to Khalil.

Lawyers stated that his treatment by the federal authorities on Saturday, when he was first arrested, until Monday reminded Khalil when he left Syria shortly after the forced disappearance of his friends there, in a period of arbitrary detention in 2013.

“During this process, Mr. Khalil felt as if he were abducted,” the lawyers wrote about his treatment.

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump presented Khalil’s arrest to be the first “of many who came”, swore on social networks to deport students, he said he was involved in “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic activity.”

In the judicial documents, lawyers for the justice department said that Kahlil was detained in accordance with a law that allows the Secretary of State Marco Rubio to remove someone in the country, if he has reasonable reason to believe that their presence or activities would have potentially potentially foreign policy.

Trump and Rubio were added as defendants in the civil process who want to release Khalil.

Government lawyers asked a judge to throw the trial or transfer to New Jersey or Louisiana, saying that the jurisdiction belongs to the locations where Khalil was owned by detention.

According to the trial, Khalil repeatedly asked to talk to a lawyer after the US permanent resident, without a criminal record, was torn by federal agents while he and his wife returned to the residential homes in Colombia, where they lived, after dinner at a friend’s house.

Faced by agents for the interior security department, Khalil briefly called his lawyer before being taken to the FBI headquarters in Manhattan de Jos, the trial said.

There, Khalil saw an agent approaching another agent and said: “The White House is asking for an update,” the lawyers wrote.

At one point on Sunday, Khalil was taken, handcuffed and shaken at the Elizabeth detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, a private installation in which he spent the night in a cold waiting room, his request for a refused blanket, the trial said.

When he arrived in front of the processing line, he said that his processing would not take place in the end, because he was transported by the immigration authorities, he said.

Put in a utility vehicle, Khalil noticed that one of the agents received a text message that indicated that Khalil did not have to use his phone, said the process.

On Sunday, at 14:45, he was placed on an American Airlines flight from Kennedy International Airport to Dallas, where he was put in a second flight to Alexandria, Louisiana. He arrived at 1 morning and a police car took him to the Louisiana detention unit in Jena, Louisiana, he said.

At the unit, he is now worried about his pregnant wife and is “also very concerned about the lack of birth of his first child,” the trial said.

In April, Khalil was going to start a job and receive health benefits that the couple is based on covering the costs of childbirth and care, he added.

“It is very important for Mr. Khalil to continue his protected political discourse, pleading and protesting for the rights of Palestinians – both internally and abroad,” said the process, mentioning that Khalil intended to speak on a group at the future premiere in Copenhagen, Denmark, about a documentary.

During a hearing on Wednesday, Khalil’s lawyers said they were not allowed any protected communication with Khalil’s lawyer from his arrest and they were told they could talk to them in 10 days. Judge Jesse M. Furman ordered at least one conversation to be allowed on Wednesday and Thursday.

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