Mohsen Mahdawi, a 34-year-old U.S. permanent resident who was raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, was detained during his April 14 naturalization interview in Vermont.

Mohsen Mahdawi is back home in the Upper Valley. The Columbia University student was released on conditions from federal custody Wednesday morning. He spent more than two weeks behind bars at a local prison after being taken into custody by armed DHS agents on April 14 while inside a federal immigration building in Colchester for what he thought would be his final naturalization interview to become a U.