Former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil has returned to the Northeast U.S. after spending 104 days in custody for protesting against Israel's war in Gaza.

Mahmoud Khalil, one of the most prominent leaders of US pro-Palestinian campus protests, pledged yesterday to keep campaigning after he was released from

It is highly unusual to be seeking detention of a petitioner given the factual record of today,” U.S. District Court Judge Michael Farbiarz stated.

Though a legal US resident with a green card, he was detained as the Trump administration sought to deport him, citing his participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations and an alleged misrepresentation on his immigration forms,

A federal judge has ruled that the government cannot deport and must release Mahmoud Khalil, the student whom the Trump administration jailed over his participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. government to free former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from the immigration detention center.

Khalil, a Columbia University student and prominent pro-Palestinian protest leader, had been in immigration detention since March. The order from a federal judge to release him is a blow to the Trump administration's effort to deport foreign students over their activism against the Gaza war.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to release Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, US media reported.Khalil, a legal permanent US resident who is married to a US citizen and has a US-born son,

Mahmoud Khalil vowed to resume his pro-Palestinian activism as he returned to New York a day after he was released on bail from a jail for immigrants, even as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said it will continue its efforts to deport the recent Columbia University graduate.