The Trump administration will argue before a panel of three conservative federal judges Tuesday to put Columbia University graduate student Mohsen Mahdawi back behind bars. One judge has already expressed support for the government’s right to imprison Mahdawi, a Palestinian student protest leader.

“They’re arguing that I should be put in prison just for speaking up against the genocide of my people,” Mahdawi told The Intercept.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took Mahdawi away in handcuffs in April after he arrived at what he thought was his naturalization interview to become a U.S. citizen, as The Intercept first reported. Since a federal judge ordered Mahdawi’s release on bail in May, the Trump administration has been working to re-imprison him and remove him from the c

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