A green card holder who led pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and was recently arrested by federal immigration authorities must be allowed to have private calls with his lawyers, a federal judge in New York City said on March 12.
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman said during a hearing in Manhattan that Mahmoud Khalil, who was a graduate student at Columbia when he organized the protests, could make at least one call on March 12 and at least one call on March 13 on unrecorded lines.
