The detention of Mahmoud Khalil was the US federal government's incarceration and attempted deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a student at Columbia University and a lead negotiator of the Gaza Solidarity
Mahmoud Khalil
The first iteration of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the East Lawn (April 17–18).
The second, autonomous iteration on the West Lawn (April 18–30), during which Khalil helped negotiate on behalf of the encampment with representatives of Columbia's administration.
United States district judge Jesse Furman (pictured) granted a writ of habeas corpus on March 10.
Claire Shipman is an American television journalist and the former senior national correspondent for ABC's Good Morning America. Shipman is the acting president of Columbia University since March 2025
Shipman outside the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in 2003