Letter from Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian political prisoner in Louisiana – Mondoweiss

The following letter was dictated by Mahmoud Khalil to his lawyers over the phone from an ICE detention center

March 18, 2025

My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.

Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans…