An Afghan man who fled the Taliban has been released from a Missouri immigration detention facility following a federal judge’s ruling.

Mohammad Ali Dadfar had been held in the Greene County Jail in Springfield since early October, when he was detained and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

On Monday, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Southern Division, agreed that Dadfar, an asylum-seeker, was arrested without a warrant and that his permission to be in the U.S. was unlawfully terminated without a hearing or written notice.

The court noted that while immigration detentions are administrative, they are still subject to due process reviews.

Officials for ICE had argued that the Missouri court did not have jurisdiction.

The court

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