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 said on March 12.
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman said during a hearing in the borough of Manhattan that Mahmoud Khalil, who was a graduate student at Columbia when he organized the protests, can make at least one call on Wednesday and at least one call on Thursday on unrecorded lines.
The order came after Ramzi Kassem, one of the attorneys representing Khalil, told the court that his client had only been allowed to make one call to his counsel….