Mahmoud Khalil, a detained Palestinian activist, expressed profound emotional distress in a recent court filing, detailing his anguish over missing the birth of his son and being separated from his wife. He described the harrowing experience of listening to his wife in labor over a poor phone connection from a detention center. His legal team's recent filings assert that his ongoing detention in Louisiana is unconstitutional and urges for his immediate release due to the psychological toll and vague justifications surrounding his detention related to foreign policy threats.
Instead of holding my wife's hand in the delivery room, I was crouched on a detention center floor, whispering through a crackling phone line as she labored alone.
To not be able to see them, hold them, speak with them freely, enjoy everything I imagined our first days as a family would be like, is devastating.
The judge wrote that the government's justification for deporting Khalil – that his beliefs may pose a threat to US foreign policy – could lead to vague and arbitrary enforcement.
Khalil's legal team filed a brief and dozens of declarations and expert reports describing the irreparable harm they say that Khalil and others will continue to suffer.
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