US judge orders release of a woman and her five children who were family of the 2025 Colorado fire attack suspect
A woman and her five children, whose immigration detention of more than 10 months marked the longest family detention under Donald Trump’s second administration, were released on Thursday hours after a judge’s order, their lawyer said.
US district judge Fred Biery of the western district of Texas ordered the family’s release.
Hayam El Gamal and her five children ages five to 18 were taken into federal custody last June after last year’s firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado, over which her ex-husband, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, was charged. An 82-year-old woman who was injured in that attack later died.
“The El Gamal family is free,” Eric Lee, a lawyer for the family detained in Texas, said in a statement.
