The government is vowing to appeal a judge’s decision to release Mohsen Mahdawi. The student activist attends Columbia University and lives in Vermont while not at school. A Vermont judge released Mahdawi on bail on Wednesday after siding with his lawyers,

A Vermont federal judge has ordered the release of a Columbia University student arrested by federal agents during an interview on his U.S. citizenship.

Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi — detained by authorities at his naturalization interview — is free for now. He had been in prison for two weeks after his arrest earlier in April.