The Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, which was released after 104 days in deportation, demands a reimbursement from the US government $ 20 million (EUR 17.08 million). He demands this amount for the damage caused by the “politically motivated arrest,” said the non -governmental organization center for constitutional rights that legally support him.
Instead of a payment, Khalil also accepted an official debt from the government of President Donald Trump and a deviation from the “unconstitutional policy” against participants in the university protests against the Gaza war.
Claim rejected as “absurd”
Khalil participated in pro-Palestinian protests related to the approach of Israel in the Gaza war in the renowned Columbia University in Manhattan. As a speaker with the demos, he played a prominent role. The US government wants to deport him and accuses him of having distributed leaflets on the university site with the logo of the militant Palestinian organization Hamas.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the US Department of Homeland, rejected Khalil’s requirement for compensation as “absurd”. Khalil and other students from abroad had called for violence with the protests on campus, glorified and supported terrorists, molested and damaged Jewish students, quoted the judicial portal “Courthouse News” and the “Washington Post” from their statement. The government of Trump acted with the arrests in the context of its legal and constitutional powers.
Khalil: “First step to ask for responsibility”
The case of Khalil has been causing a sensation in the US for months. It was the first publicly known arrest of a pro-Palestinian activist during the term of office of US President Trump-More has now been added. In June a federal judge in the state of New Jersey ordered that Khalil had to be released from the bail, while the procedure continued to run against him.
Khalil had founded Louisiana in the Haftantstalt in Jena in the US state. According to his lawyers, he has a Greencard who grants him a permanent right to live in the United States. His wife is an American citizen-the child was born in April when he was in custody.
Source: Krone
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