CLEVELAND, Ohio — Two lawsuits over the detention of a Cincinnati imam’s controversial immigration arrest and detention have been dropped, days after government officials dismissed the immigration case.

Ayman Soliman walked free from the Butler County Jail on Friday after attorneys for the Department of Homeland Security dropped the immigration case against him and reinstated his asylum status.

Soliman’s attorneys over the weekend filed to dismiss two cases they filed over his detention— one seeking a judge to order his asylum status be reinstated and another challenging the conditions of his detention.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Hopkins granted the requests on Monday.

The lawsuits were part of a broader legal effort to fight Soliman’s detention and looming deportation. An earlier su

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