The Egyptian chaplain of which caused the community’s shock and became a testing of the powers to combat terrorism in the Immigration Court, was released from prison to Ohio on Friday, when the Internal Security Department had repressed the case against it.
The result is the victory of 51-year-old Aiman Soliman, whose popular Muslim clergyman includes the families he advised at the Cincinni Children’s Hospital. DHS moves to restore asylum status and deportation that come after court statements recorded errors and inconsistencies in government evidence that reflects it as a terrorist.
Before 1 pm, Soliman left the priest of the Batler county with a wide smile and a plastic bag that contains his things, his friends and fans momentarily removed. Next week he was scheduled for the Immigration Court and collided with deportation to Egypt, which he escaped in 2014 from political persecution.
“This is on the borders of my dream,” Soliman Propublica said a few minutes after his release. “I’m still overflowing with a surprise.”
Soliman’s shelter was resumed, and his application for a green map was revived, said Robert Ratlif, one of his lawyers. At the beginning of Friday, Ratlif provided documents showing a discrepancy in the formulation that it was supposed to be the same notice of the abolition of the asylum. One version called it a “member” of a terrorist group, and the other accused him of providing illegal assistance to a terrorist group. Soliman denied both disputes.
The submission on Friday recorded the last in a number of inconsistencies in the government’s evidence that Propublica reports This month.
“From the very beginning, everything was imperfect,” Ratlif said. “This is definitely a victory for him, and it’s huge. Unfortunately, he had to spend about 70 days in prison to get to this point.”
A DHS spokesman said the immigration authorities “could not discuss details of individual immigration and decision -making decisions.” But the official added: “The alien – even when the application for expectation or legitimate status – is not protected from the protection of immigration.” The agency “is responsible for managing the legitimate immigration system of America, ensuring the integrity of the immigration process.”
Going out of the prison, Soliman entered the utilities in the local mosque on Friday, where Imam greeted his release as a find and celebrated his friend as “a free man, as he should always be.”
On Friday night, supporters at the press conference Soliman said he was still in disbelief that his day had started in custody. He just came from a restaurant where he liked “salad and fruits and meat” after weeks. He said he was “in words” for the support system that was defended. He said he had received 760 letters while in prison from the people he had never met.
“I’m free today from this propaganda,” Soliman said. “Do not underestimate your voice.”
The study of the soloman, which covered two administrations, is more complicated than most repressions in President Donald Trump’s immigration.
After escaping his journalistic and protest activity in Egypt, asylum in 2018 was provided with the first Trump administration. Then, in the last month of Joe Biden’s presidency, immigration bodies have moved to recall status based on sharply disputed fraud claims and assistance to the terrorist group. After Trump returned to the office in a few weeks, the court records show, on June 7, immigration officials were subjected to terrorism and refuge.
DHS has created a case on charges that Soliman’s participation with the Islamic charity provided illegal assistance or “material support” for Muslim brother. But neither charity nor brotherhood is a terrorist organization appointed by the US, and the Egyptian court found No official ties between groups.
Laws on material support prohibit virtually any type of assistance to foreign terrorist groups. The prosecutor’s office describes the laws as an invaluable instrument against future attackers, but the groups of civil liberties have long complained about overcoming.
DHS epochs, who first outlined the charity issue, said he was withdrawn by Soliman, if “the advantage of evidence supports abolition” after the hearings, the December 2024 said. While the court records show, the claim of material support was made as secondary concern after more common asylum issues on the truth of official documents and the requirements of the Soliman on persecution in Egypt.
After Trump came to electricity in a few weeks, Soliman’s lawyers said material support stated that the US authorities had announced a level of Muslim 3rd level, or without appointed terrorist group and added new arguments about Hamas. Brotherhood, almost a century of Islamist political movement, abandoned violence in the 1970s, although Hamas and other spinoffs are on the US blacklist.
The court supply shows DHS lawyers who represent, and then withdrawing or making a change, materials for the creation of a case that connects Soliman with a fraternity through charity. Almost immediately the data began to unravel.
Among the auxiliary documents submitted by the government were three academic reports of scientists with deep knowledge of Islamic charity organizations in Egypt. Soliman’s legal team has applied from all three Balgas on how DHS chose their research. Scientists have described “important errors of facts and interpretations”, “wrong characteristics” and “dishonest manipulation with my text”.
Separately from the US attempts to tie soliman to the brotherhood, it was an incomprehensible footnote, in which the DHS lawyers hinted at the “murder and terrorism” in Iraq, a country that Soliman never visited. DHS admitted in court that this line was a mistake – after it was included in a successful government argument for maintenance.
Legal scientists specializing in national security monitored the case as a sensor of how many Trump administration could possess at the intersection of counter -terrorism and immigration.
Ratlif said that the victory was important, but he did not think the result would restrain DHS from calling such arguments in other issues of immigration, especially with the participation of cartels that the Trump administration appointed as terrorist organizations, unlocking the powers of materials.
“The connections in this case have always been too insignificant to resist control,” Ratlif said. “I think this format is still the format we will see DHS.”
Saliman supporters – from religious leaders to university students to his parents, whom he met at the hospital, welcomed his release.
“I know that tomorrow he will return to the work he performs, about the care of his community,” said Lin Tramonte, executive director of Ohio -immigration alliance, one of the propaganda groups that pushed his release.
