The Trump administration is continuing its efforts to deport an Ohio cleric using what the cleric’s defenders say is a shifting, false rationale.
Meanwhile, Covington, Ky., authorities are walking back some of their charges against two journalists after police there violently ended a July 17 protest against the cleric’s detention.
Ayman Soliman, an Egyptian national, continues to be held in Butler County Jail after being arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on July 9.
Under pressure from President Donald Trump to make 3,000 immigration-related arrests a day, officials accused Soliman of providing “material support” to terrorists in Egypt more than a decade ago.
Soliman was beaten and tortured by Egypt’s totalitarian government after he worked with western journalists during the Arab Spring uprising, his lawyers said.
He later served as a Muslim chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital after coming to the United States in 2014 and seeking asylum. It was granted in 2018, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
That asylum was suddenly revoked on June 3 over supposed ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, which the United States has not designated a terrorist group.
After the cancellation of a July 3 hearing in immigration court on Soliman’s loss of asylum status, ICE arrested him on July 9 and took him to Butler County Jail in Hamilton.
To stop ICE from whisking the 51-year-old out of the country, U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett on July 15 issued a temporary...
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