A judge on Wednesday ordered the release of a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested by immigration officials during an

Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi — detained by authorities at his naturalization interview — is free for now. He had been in prison for two weeks after his arrest earlier in April.

A Vermont judge ordered the release of Columbia student and activist Mohsen Mahdawi from federal detention, where he was held after a naturalization interview turned into an ICE arrest.