内容摘要：“Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP!” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

“Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP!” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

. Mahdawi was among the first to win release from custody after challenging his arrest.In another case, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in favor of Tufts University student

, upholding an order to transfer her from a Louisiana detention center back to New England to determine whether her rights were violated and if she should be released.Mahdawi said his message to the Turkish student and others was “stay positive and don’t let this injustice shake your belief in the inevitability of justice.”“People are working hard. Communities are mobilizing,” he said. “The justice system has signaled to America with my case, and with Rumeysa’s yesterday with the Second Circuit, that justice is functioning and checks and balances is still in function.”

Mahdawi’s release, which is being challenged by the government, allows him to travel outside of his home state of Vermont and attend his graduation from Columbia in New York later this month. He said he plans to do so, though he believes the administration has turned its back on him and rejected the work of a student diplomacy council he served on alongside Jewish, Israeli and Lebanese students.“I plan to attend the graduation because it is a message,” he said. “This is a message that education is hope, education is light, and there is no power in the world that should take that away from us.”

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United States told the International Court of Justice Wednesday that Israel must provide aid to Gaza, but the country does not have to work with the

The top court of the United Nations isMahdawi spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday, a day after pro-Palestinian protestors clashed with campus security guards inside the university’s main library. At least 80 people were taken into custody, police said.

Mahdawi said instead of being a “beacon of hope,” the university is inciting violence against students.“Columbia University is participating in the destruction of the democratic system,” Mahdawi said in the interview. “They are supporting the initiatives and the agenda of the Trump administration, and they are punishing and torturing their students.”

Mohsen Mahdawi, center, speaks during a press conference announcing the launch of the Vermont Immigration Legal Defense Fund in the Cedar Creek Reception Room at the Vermont State House on Thursday, May 8, 2025, in Montpelier, Vt. (AP Photo/Alex Driehaus)Mohsen Mahdawi, center, speaks during a press conference announcing the launch of the Vermont Immigration Legal Defense Fund in the Cedar Creek Reception Room at the Vermont State House on Thursday, May 8, 2025, in Montpelier, Vt. (AP Photo/Alex Driehaus)