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Student from
Azerbaijan
Detained by
ICE in
Columbia
Housing Is
Released
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Feb 26 –A Columbia University
student from Azerbaijan was
detained by ICE on February 26
inside her student housing at
503 East 121 Street and taken
to 26 Federal Plaza in lower
Manhattan.
Ellie
Aghayeva filed
a habeas corpus petition in
the US District Court for the
Southern District of New York
later on February 26. where
Inner City Press found
it.
The case
was assigned to Judge John G.
Koeltl. The petition
says "on information and
belief, Respondents
represented they were
searching for a missing person
to gain entry" to the Columbia
housing.
Also filed was an
emergency motion for a
Temporary Restraining Order.
Inner City Press is covering a
trial over which Judge Koeltl
is presiding, and will be
following this case.
In fact, the case
was referred to the Part 1
Judge for the week, Judge
Katherine Polk Failla - of
whose ruling maintaining Syria
Temporary Protected Status the
Government took an emergency
appeal to the Supreme Court
earlier on February 26. She
granted a stay, and a
schedule:
"On or before
March 3, 2026, the Government
shall file an opposition as to
why this petition for a writ
of habeas corpus should not
begranted.(iii)Petitioner
shall have the opportunity to
reply on or before March
5,2026.(iv)The parties shall
appear for a conference
regarding the petition on
March 6, 2026, at 2:30 p.m....
To preserve the Courts
jurisdiction pending a ruling
on the petition, Petitioner
shall not be removed from the
United States without an order
by this Court allowing such
removal... to facilitate
resolution of the petition,
Petitioner shall not be
transferred, except to a
facility within this District,
the Eastern District of New
York, or the District of New
Jersey absent further order of
this Court. (Signed by
Judge Katherine Polk Failla,
Part 1 on 2/26/2026) (rro)
Then, she was
released - not by the above
quoted, but DC. She wrote on
Instagram, "I just got out a
little while ago. I am safe
and ok. I am in complete shock
over what happened…”
The case is
Aghayeva v. Genalo, et al.,
1:26-cv-1602 (Koeltl)
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