Mahmoud I. Khalil

1 month ago | aclu.org | David Cole |Eugene Volokh |Michael C. Dorf |Mahmoud I. Khalil

Free Speech The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech. By: David Cole, Eugene Volokh, Michael C.

1 month ago | juancole.com | Mahmoud I. Khalil |Juan Cole

Note from Juan Cole: I used to write letters to totalitarian governments on behalf of Amnesty International complaining about their detention of political prisoners for mere thought crimes. One of the worst offenders was Communist Czechoslovakia, which did not even bother to reply. I could not have imagined in 1987 that in 2025 people in Prague would have the right to freedom of speech but that there would be permanent residents of the United States held as prisoners of conscience.

1 month ago | healthimpactnews.com | Brian Shilhavy |Mahmoud I. Khalil

by Brian ShilhavyEditor, Health Impact NewsA judge in federal court in New York ruled today that the Trump Administration, who arrested Mahmoud Khalil over this past weekend with no warrant, and who was being detained in Louisiana with no contact allowed between him and his attorneys and his wife who is 8 months pregnant and is a U.S. Citizen, had to allow Khalil access to his attorneys so he could appear in court.