Mahmoud Khalil and Trump’s assault on free speech

马哈茂德·哈利勒与特朗普对言论自由的攻击

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2025-03-20

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Detained after taking a leading role in pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University, the graduate has called himself a political prisoner. Chris McGreal reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is the Guardian.

  • Today,

  • how the arrest of a pro Palestine activist is becoming the biggest test of free speech in the US for decades.

  • Turn around, turn around, turn around, turn around.

  • Okay, let's, let's not resist.

  • Okay?

  • Okay.

  • He's not resisting.

  • He's giving me his phone.

  • Okay.

  • This is New York City, 8th of March this year.

  • A group of plain clothes agents from the Immigration Enforcement Agency ICE surround and handcuff a man named Mahmoud Khalil.

  • You guys really don't need to be doing all of that.

  • They're being filmed by Mahmoud's wife, Noor.

  • She's eight months pregnant.

  • Hi, Amy.

  • Yeah, they just like handcuffed him and took him.

  • I don't know what to do.

  • Last year,

  • Mahmoud became one of the faces of a student protest movement at Columbia University against the ongoing Israeli war in Gaza.