Tears of joy as Egyptian immigrant and Cincinnati chaplain is released from detention

An Egyptian immigrant who has worked as a chaplain for a Cincinnati hospital was released Friday after weeks in detention.

Ayman Soliman was detained in July during a check-in with immigration officials. Soliman served as an imam — a Muslim religious leader — in Egypt for 14 years before fleeing to the United States in 2014, according to the Initiative on Islam and Medicine, where he serves as a board member.