The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues, Nicolas Levrat, and eight other legal experts, have called on the United States to release Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, who has been arrested and threatened with deportation from the US for his role in campus protests against Israel last year. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Washington must stop harassing pro-Palestinian students, they say. The independent experts, who do not speak on behalf of the UN, said in Geneva on Thursday that the arrest, detention and threatened deportation of Khalil is "dangerous". The Palestinian student activist was arrested on March 8 without the charges against him being clarified. He had previously been the victim of an online smear campaign calling for his expulsion. The arrest came amid a wider campaign of harassment and threats against students defending Palestinian rights and calling for divestment from companies linked to the war in Gaza. The ...
