Author: Abbes

Mathematician, Director of research in Paris, Secretary of AURDIP

Mohsen Mahdawi — the Columbia student arrested at his citizenship appointment — speaks

In the first media interview with any of the Trump administration’s student detainees – all at risk of deportation — Mahdawi spoke to Leila Fadel in the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans, Vt., where he’s awaiting a court hearing Wednesday in a petition that argues government officials violated his First Amendment right to free speech and his right to due process.

Editor’s note: On Wednesday, April 30, a federal judge in Vermont ordered Mohsen Mahdawi’s release while his case proceeds.

Long overdue release of Ahmad Manasra marks the start of a long and difficult path to recovery

Ahmad Manasra’s release comes at a time when thousands of Palestinian prisoners and detainees face unprecedented levels of torture and other ill-treatment and denial of their most basic rights, such as food and healthcare. Israeli authorities repeatedly claimed that Manasra’s prolonged and cruel solitary confinement was aimed at protecting him, but in fact it subjected him to immense suffering.