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A Palestinian woman has been released from a US immigration detention centre after a year in custody following the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists, according to her lawyers.
TRT WORLD reports that Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old from the oc occupied West Bank who has lived in New Hersy since 2016, had been held in a US immigration detention centre in Texas since last March.
Kordia was among roughly 100 people arrested outside Columbia University during protests at the school in 2024.
An immigration judge had ordered her release on bond three times.
The government challenged the first two rulings, but Kordia was freed on Monday after it did not challenge the third.
She was recently hospialized for three days following a seizure after fainting and hitting her head at the privately-run detention facility.
She said she joined the 2024 demonstration after Israel killed scores of her relatives in Gaza, where she maintains deep personal ties.
The charges against her for the protest were dismissed and sealed.
