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Joanna Slater

United States

National Correspondent at The Washington Post

Reporter at @washingtonpost. Former India Bureau Chief. Previously: @globeandmail, @WSJ, FEER. Delhi, New York, Berlin, Mumbai, HK. @[email protected]

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  • 3 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Joanna Slater

  • 3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Joanna Slater |Maria Paul |María Luisa Paúl

    Who is Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage released by Hamas? (washingtonpost.com) Who is Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage released by Hamas? By Joanna Slater; María Luisa Paúl 2025051216323700 Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old who grew up in New Jersey, was released by Hamas on Monday after nearly 600 days in captivity.

  • 4 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Joanna Slater

    Tufts student arrested by ICE freed from detention (washingtonpost.com) Tufts student arrested by ICE freed from detention By Joanna Slater 2025050918153100 A Tufts University graduate student who was grabbed off the street in late March and detained for co-writing an opinion piece in a student newspaper was freed Friday after a federal judge ordered her release.

  • 1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Joanna Slater

    Detained Tufts student must be transferred to Vermont, appeals court rules (washingtonpost.com) Detained Tufts student must be transferred to Vermont, appeals court rules By Joanna Slater 2025050718404100 A Tufts graduate student who has spent the past six weeks in a detention center in Louisiana for writing an opinion article in a student newspaper must be returned to Vermont for future hearings in her case, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

  • 1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Joanna Slater

    Judge orders release of Columbia student arrested by ICE (washingtonpost.com) Judge orders release of Columbia student arrested by ICE By Joanna Slater 2025043015462600 BURLINGTON, Vermont — A U.S. district judge on Wednesday ordered the release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a permanent resident who was detained at his citizenship interview this month as part of a crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists by the Trump administration.

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Joanna Slater
Joanna Slater @jslaternyc
5 Nov 24

RT @arelisrhdz: In today’s @washingtonpost, we tell the story of an asylum-seeking family from 🇻🇪 we met in 🇲🇽 & followed them to 🗽 to tell…

Joanna Slater
Joanna Slater @jslaternyc
19 Sep 24

RT @cathleendecker: Routh’s strange journey from running a roofing company in N.C. to what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt…

Joanna Slater
Joanna Slater @jslaternyc
11 Aug 24

RT @washingtonpost: A former high school classmate urged Post reporter Danielle Paquette to look into why two brothers, Josiah and Jeremiah…