The US government has said that pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in detention after a US judge ruled foreign policy interests could not be used to justify the confinement of the Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist, Reuters reports.
Khalil’s lawyers had called for his immediate release but US attorneys said in a letter to the judge that they would keep holding him on other charges, such as immigration fraud, that were not addressed in the decision.
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