{"id":41325,"date":"2025-11-16T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/41325\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:07:07","slug":"new-york-times-reports-on-bard-colleges-efforts-to-free-ali-faqirzada-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/41325\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Reports on Bard College\u2019s Efforts to Free Ali Faqirzada \u201928"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\tWhen Bard Baccalaureate student and Afghan asylum-seeker Ali Faqirzada \u201928 was detained on October 14 after a routine hearing in New York, officials from Bard College and the Episcopal Diocese mobilized their networks to help. Dionne Searcey for the New York Times reports on those ongoing efforts. \u201cThe only chance of rescuing this individual from injustice is to make it visible,\u201d President Leon Botstein told the Times. \u201cIf you stand for the truth and for learning and all the virtues of a serious education and an examined life and you believe in the idea of justice, you have to act.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Immediately following his detainment, Bard Vice President for Strategy and Policy and Chief of Staff Malia Du Mont \u201995 and Vice President for Student Affairs Dumaine Williams \u201903 visited Faqirzada at Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in New Jersey where he is being held. \u201cI would describe it as feeling like a member of the family had been taken,\u201d said Du Mont, a US veteran of the Afghan War.<\/p>\n<p>The College, alongside Human Rights First and the Episcopal Diocese of New York, has worked to enlist bipartisan federal, state, and local elected officials in efforts to organize and advocate for Faqirzada\u2019s release. Two Bard alumni\/ae at the law firm Quinn Emanuel have offered pro bono legal service to represent Faqirzada in his asylum case.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Post\u00a0Date:\u00a011-16-2025 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Bard Baccalaureate student and Afghan asylum-seeker Ali Faqirzada \u201928 was detained on October 14 after a routine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21309,9,11,10,12,1541,757],"class_list":{"0":"post-41325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-bard","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-press-release","14":"tag-public-relations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}