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Roque Planas

President of Wisconsin’s largest mosque released from ICE custody

Man in black long-sleeved shirt smiles as he gets into a car.
Salah Sarsour shortly after his release from a county jail in Indiana, on Thursday. Photograph: Yaseen Najeeb/AP

A federal judge has ordered the release of the president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque, after finding that immigration officials probably detained him in retaliation against his public advocacy for Palestinian rights, suppressing his first amendment rights in the process.

The US district judge James Patrick Hanlon’s order on Thursday marked a sharp rebuke against Trump officials, including the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who had tried to paint Salah Sarsour as a national security threat.

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