This is a light of hope, hope and faith in the justice system in America,' Mahdawi says of US District Judge Geoffrey ...

Mahdawi is among the first non-US citizen student activists detained by the Trump administration in recent months to be released from immigration detention by court order.

Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi — detained by authorities at his naturalization interview — is free for now. He had been in prison for two weeks after his arrest earlier in April.