{"id":36402,"date":"2025-03-19T00:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/i-am-a-political-prisoner-mahmoud-khalil-says-hes-being-targeted-for-political-beliefs\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:09:15","slug":"i-am-a-political-prisoner-mahmoud-khalil-says-hes-being-targeted-for-political-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/i-am-a-political-prisoner-mahmoud-khalil-says-hes-being-targeted-for-political-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I am a political prisoner\u2019: Mahmoud Khalil says he\u2019s being targeted for political beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Palestinian activist and green card holder speaks out from Louisiana immigration detention for first time<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Never miss global breaking news. <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/1jb08op7\">Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In his first public remarks since being detained by federal immigration authorities, Palestinian activist and recent Columbia graduate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/mahmoud-khalil\">Mahmoud Khalil<\/a>, spoke out against the conditions facing immigrants in US detention and said he was being targeted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> for his political beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a political prisoner,\u201d he said in a statement provided exclusively to the Guardian. \u201cI am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/18\/mahmoud-khalil-statement-columbia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Palestinian activist and green card holder speaks out from Louisiana immigration detention for first time Never miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time. In his first public remarks since being detained by federal immigration authorities, Palestinian activist and recent Columbia graduate, Mahmoud Khalil, spoke &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018I am a political prisoner\u2019: Mahmoud Khalil says he\u2019s being targeted for political beliefs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/i-am-a-political-prisoner-mahmoud-khalil-says-hes-being-targeted-for-political-beliefs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018I am a political prisoner\u2019: Mahmoud Khalil says he\u2019s being targeted for political beliefs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}