RICHMOND — A Bangladeshi man won release from ICE’s Farmville Detention Center after a judge found the agency violated his due process rights.

The man’s legal team asked that he only be identified as “M.H.” due to concerns of retaliation from Islamic fundamentalists in his home country should he be deported. M.H. arrived in California as an asylum seeker in November 2024.

Prior to his arrest, M.H. wore an ankle monitor and was under what’s known as “intensive supervision” while the immigration system processed his asylum claim.

Shortly after equipping the monitor, he was called back to an ICE supervision office, where ICE agents arrested him, according to court documents.

An immigration judge ruled that M.H. could post bond, allowing him to be free while his case proceeds; however, ICE

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