Judge sets timeline in pro-Palestinian Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil's case as ICE holds him in custody

I think it would be very devastating for me and for him to meet his first child behind a glass screen,

Abdalla said

I didn't take him seriously. Clearly I was naive,

Abdalla, a US citizen who is eight months pregnant, told Reuters in her first media interview

Mahmoud is Palestinian and he's always been interested in Palestinian politics,

she said

Dominic LeBlancfinance Minister

We will not stand idly by while our iconic steel and aluminum industries are being unfairly targeted,

Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc said today

Russia has not had free elections for almost 20 years. An aggressor state cannot give lessons in democracy,

the ministry said

The infatuation with institutional neutrality,

he said

There are a lot of facts in that case that are tricky and not all public,

Mizelle replied, ... according to Cheney

Unless you have a green card,

Howell replied, an apparent reference to Khalil's legal issues

My husband was kidnapped from our home, and it’s shameful that the United States government continues to hold him because he stood for the rights and lives of his people,

Khalil’s wife said in a Wednesday statement read by attorney Shezza Abboushidallal

The United States government has taken the position that it can arrest, detain and seek to deport a lawful permanent resident exclusively because of his peaceful, constitutionally protected activism ― in this case, activism in support of Palestinian human rights and an end to the genocide in Gaza,

said Baher Azmy, a member of Khalil’s counsel and the legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights

Every day that Mahmoud spends in detention in Louisiana is a day too long. We and he fully intend to vindicate not just his First Amendment rights, but those of all Americans, frankly, and all lawful permanent residents and anybody who wants to speak out,

Ramzi Kassem, one of Khalil’s attorneys, told reporters as protesters could be heard loudly calling for the activist’s freedom

His disappearance has devastated our lives. Every day without him is filled with uncertainty – not just for me, but for our entire family and community. Our loved ones are struggling with the pain and fear of his sudden absence,

she continued

The government takes the position that because the secretary of state finds his dissent unacceptable or contrary to U.S. foreign policy, he can be deported,

he continued

It cannot be the case that you can be disappeared at night, off the streets of New York city, simply because the current administration in the White House dislikes what you have to say,

Kassem said

Essentially they are a form of punishment and retaliation for the exercise of free speech,

he added

Mr. Khalil’s detention has nothing to do with security. It is only about repression,

Azmy said

For the Trump administration to come and say you, as a green card holder, can just be picked up from your home one night with no due process, this should be completely appalling to every single American,

she added

No matter what your political opinions are in this country, you have a right, constitutionally, to be able to express them, and that is exactly what Mahmoud Khalil was doing,

she said

If we don't stand up now, citizens are next,

he said

Where exactly are we in the poem that begins, ‘When they came for the communists, I did not speak out’? Well, they’ve already come for the asylum seekers,

he said