(Cincinnati Enquirer) The attorneys for a jailed hospital chaplain say he lost his asylum status because a government official determined he was a terrorist threat based on his work for a charity in Egypt with purported ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Ayman Soliman, a former Muslim chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s, remains at the Butler County Jail after immigration officials detained him July 9.
Neither U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement nor the FBI has said why the government revoked Soliman’s asylum in June, almost seven years after it was granted and more than a decade after Soliman said he fled Egypt to escape persecution and torture. But his attorneys’ disclosure about his charitable work and an alleged connection to the Muslim Brotherhood provides some insight into the government’s case against him.
