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Award-winning Kashmiri filmmaker Arfat Sheikh has been released from ICE detention after being held since September 24, his supporters say. His deportation case remains open, with a hearing scheduled for October 27.
Kashmiri filmmaker Arfat Sheikh was detained by ICE at Washington Dulles International Airport on Sept. 24, according to an advocacy group demanding his release. Sheikh, a Virginia resident who came to the U.S. on a student visa in 2019 and applied for asylum in 2020, is being held at the Caroline Detention Facility. His detention comes amid record ICE arrest numbers this summer.
