Interfaith leaders in Ohio delivered Gov. Mike DeWine a letter Monday, asking him to intervene in Imam Ayman Soliman’s immigration case ahead of a hearing scheduled Tuesday morning.

“Throughout your decades of service—as Prosecutor, Attorney General, U.S. Senator, and now Governor—you have acted with courage when injustice demanded it,” the letter read. “Time and again, you have demonstrated a willingness to do what is right.”

Soliman is an Egyptian national who was granted “indefinite” asylum status by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2018, until the agency terminated his asylum status in June. Long before he was an interfaith chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Soliman documented civil unrest in Egypt in the early 2010s. Then, after his arrest and torture, he fl

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