Momodou Taal tells MEE's Big Picture Podcast he went into hiding after immigration officers tried to deport him over pro-Palestine activism at Cornell

Momodou Taal, whose student visa was revoked because of his involvement in anti-Israel campus protests, has fled the US to dodge arrest by authorities.

Cornell University doctoral candidate Momodou Taal has chosen to leave the US after a judge declined to immediately block his deportation.

Taal’s case is part of a broader system of state terror now unfolding in the United States. Dissent is being criminalized and the legal architecture of dictatorship is being constructed.