Ayman Soliman , a beloved former children ’s hospital chaplain in the Cincinnati, Ohio , area, has been jailed by Donald Trump ’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement since July 9. Soliman was finally released on Friday, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone .
Just before 1:15 p.m. on Friday, Adam Allen — one of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital chaplains who was fired after publicly backing Soliman — said in a brief phone call: “He’s at a mosque.”
The imam’s attorney, Robert Ratliff, confirms that Soliman was released and “headed home,” and that he expects U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to fully reinstate his client’s legal asylum status, which was officially terminated by the Trump administration the month before his arrest.
Ratliff says