Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam, an Indian-origin man from Pennsylvania, was released from prison after spending 43 years behind bars, only to be immediately taken into custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over a decades-old deportation order. Vedam’s family has launched a major protest demanding his release. The 64-year-old, who was arrested as an infant-immigrant in 1982, had spent nearly his entire adult life in prison for a murder he insists he did not commit. He was accused of killing his friend Thomas Kinser.

Vedam was convicted in 1983 and sentenced to life without parole, but he consistently maintained his innocence. New evidence in 2022 showed that the bullet wound in Kinser’s skull was too small to match the previously identified weapon, paving the way for his exon

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