“Even if they would kill me, I would still speak for Palestine,“ Khalil said as he was greeted by cheering supporters at Newark airport, just outside New York City.
He was freed from a federal immigration detention center in Louisiana on Friday, hours after a judge ordered his release on bail.
“Just the fact I am here sends a message -- the fact that all these attempts to suppress pro-Palestine voices have failed now,“ said Khalil, who is still fighting his potential expulsion from the United States.
“Mahmoud Khalil was imprisoned for 104 days by this administration, by the Trump administration, with no grounds and for political reasons, because Mahmoud Khalil is an advocate for Palestinian human rights,“ Ocasio-Cortez said.
Khalil, who was born in Syria to Palestinian parents, is not allowed to leave the United States except for “self-deportation” under the terms of his release.
President Donald Trump’s government has justified pushing for Khalil’s deportation by saying his continued presence in the United States could carry “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.”
“We are very mindful about his security, and the irony is that he is the one being persecuted,“ Baher Azmy, one of his lawyers, told AFP.
“But he is committed to peace and because he is rejecting US government policy he is under threat,“ Azmy added, without elaborating on any security measures in place for Khalil and his family.
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