{"id":69126,"date":"2026-03-16T19:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/leqaa-kordia-a-pro-palestinian-activist-released-after-a-year-in-ice-custody\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:58:52","slug":"leqaa-kordia-a-pro-palestinian-activist-released-after-a-year-in-ice-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/leqaa-kordia-a-pro-palestinian-activist-released-after-a-year-in-ice-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Leqaa Kordia, a pro-Palestinian activist, released after a year in ICE custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kordia was taken at a check-in at an ICE office in New Jersey and was held despite court ruling thrice for her release<\/p>\n<p>A New Jersey woman who had been arrested at a pro-Palestine protest and booked into a US immigration detention center in Texas last March has been released on bond, after a year in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Leqaa Kordia, 33, originally from the West Bank, was arrested in April 2024 at a protest against Israel\u2019s war on Gaza outside of Columbia University. Nearly a year later, she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/13\/leqaa-kordia-ice-detention-palestine-protest\">taken into custody<\/a> after reporting for a check-in at a Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/16\/leqaa-kordia-released-ice-custody\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kordia was taken at a check-in at an ICE office in New Jersey and was held despite court ruling thrice for her release A New Jersey woman who had been arrested at a pro-Palestine protest and booked into a US immigration detention center in Texas last March has been released on bond, after a year &#8230; <a title=\"Leqaa Kordia, a pro-Palestinian activist, released after a year in ICE custody\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/leqaa-kordia-a-pro-palestinian-activist-released-after-a-year-in-ice-custody\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Leqaa Kordia, a pro-Palestinian activist, released after a year in ICE custody\">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-69126","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\/69126","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=69126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}