Relief and a raised fist as Mahmoud Khalil goes free – but release ‘very long overdue’ | Mahmoud Khalil

Mahmoud Khalil was amazed in the afternoon sun from the fences on the top of the razor, through two long gates and out of Louisiana’s middle moisture.

After being detained for more than three months in this remote and malicious immigration in the town of Jena, he described a feeling of painful release while walking towards a handful of fishes, but composed and softly spoken.

“Even though justice prevailed, it has been delayed for a long time and should not take three months,” he said, after forcing a federal judge in New Jersey to allow him to be detained as the immigration case progresses.

Orum The incredible men behind me, I leave behind me, in a place where they shouldn’t, ”he said. “I hope I will be in Jena next time it is really to visit.”

He was besieged by two lawyers and told Guardian how his 104 -day detention changed him and his policy.

“As soon as you enter this facility, your rights leave you behind,” he said.

Now he pointed to the facility that expanded behind him.

“You see a different reality after entering there,” he said. “A different reality defending human rights, freedom and justice about this country. Once you have passed, that door is literally, you see the opposite side of those in this country.”

Khalil is the highest profile of students who were arrested and detained by Trump administration for pro -Palestinian activism. After a arrest that was closed from the Columbia Apartment building in New York, he was the last person in custody.

The Trump administration labeled Khalil as a national security threat and asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs to rarely abolish its used powers under the law of immigration. The administration fought violently to detain Khalil and continues to force it to be removed from the United States.

When Guardian asked what the response to these claims was, Khalil said: “Trump and his administration chose the wrong person for this. This does not mean that he was the right person for this. There is no right person to be detained to protest a genocide.”

In short, he talked about the excitement of seeing his newborn son for the first time away from the supervision of the Ministry of Interior. Halil was born in custody. He specially waited for their first embrace. At the time of his arrest he waited for seeing his existing wife.

He smiled briefly.

And then he turned into a car, ready to take him home to the first foot of a journey.