The Butler County sheriff said Monday he will refuse any request from Gov. Mike DeWine to release a former Cincinnati Children’s chaplain from jail.
Faith leaders from across the state gathered at the Ohio Statehouse Monday morning to urge the governor to use his authority to call for Ayman Soliman’s release from the Butler County Jail. Soliman was detained during what was supposed to be a routine check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier this summer, his attorneys said.
Soliman had been granted asylum after arriving in the U.S. over a decade ago, but his attorneys said Soliman was notified that the process to revoke his status began in December 2024, when they said an asylum officer labeled an organization Soliman was involved with in Egypt as a terrorist group despite neither the U.S. nor Egypt designating the group as such…