The new documents admitted to a New Jersey court show on Thursday that the Federal Government defended its trial without order of student activist at Columbia University Mahmoud Khalil By saying that the agents feared he would flee because he said he would leave the scene.
The documents were entered into the Judicial Registry to defend against the efforts of the efforts to gain Khalil’s freedom, who has been arrested in a detention center in Jena, Louisiana, for six weeks.
In a document presented in the Federal Court of Newark, a lawyer from the National Security Department wrote on Monday that the agents who carry out Khalil’s surveillance on March 8 were notified that it could be withdrawn from the country with the congesigns Wouugd of the states.
While Khalil walked on a sidewalk with his wife, a national security investigations agent approached and identified herself, according to the presentation of the court.
After his wife went to recover documents that show that Khalil had a legal residence status, the agent asked him to cooperate while trying to verify his identity, but Khalil “declared that he would not cooperate and that he wrote went to the scene.
The National Security Supervision Agent at that time “believed that there was a risk of escape and that a trial was necessary,” he said.
In a statement on Thursday, the American Union of Civil Liberties challenged the account, saying that the statement that was about to flee was false and denies for video tasks of the sentence by Khalil’s wifetogether with previous stories of the sentence.
Marc Van Der Hout, a Khalil lawyer, said in the statement that the agents told Khalil when it was capitody tasks that had an order of trial, and his lawyers only learned this week before the new presentation of the government that there was none.
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Amy Greer, a lawyer who was talking on the phone with Khalil and the arrest agent on the night of the sentence, said Khalil remained calm that night and complied with the orders, even when the agents did not show a court order.
“Today, we now know why they never showed that order to Mahmoud, they did not have one. This is clearly another desperate attempt from the Trump administration to justify their illegal arrest and detention of the defender of human rights Mahmoud Khalil, who is now, for the government’s admission tacit itself, a political prisoner of the United States,” Greer said.
Khalil is a legal student from the United States and a graduated student who served as a spokesman for campus activists last year during great demonstrations in Columbia against Israel’s treatment to the Palestinians and the war in Gaza.
He was arrested by federal agents in the Lobby of his Manhattan apartment on March 8, the first sentence in President Donald Trump’s repression against Pro-Palestinian activists.
The Trump administration has not accused Khalil of criminal conduct, but has argued that he should be expelled from the country for his beliefs.
An immigration judge in Louisiana ruled earlier this month that the government’s statement that Khalil’s presence in the United States raised “consequences of powerful foreign policy” satisfied requirements for deportation.
