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Greensboro detainee Mohamed Naser released

Image shows Mohamed Naser hugging his 15-year-old daughter
Image courtesy of attorney Jeremy McKinney
Mohamed Naser, an immigrant living in Greensboro, hugs his daughter, 15, after his release from the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga.

Greensboro immigrant Mohamed Naser has been released from a federal detention center in Georgia.

Naser was taken into custody last month. His attorney, Helen Parsonage, says federal officials argued he had stayed in the country too long while seeking asylum.

She says that’s not true.

Last week, a federal judge agreed to release Naser on a $20,000 bond. But U.S. Immigration and Customs put that move on hold.

In response, his attorneys filed a habeas corpus action seeking his release. He was freed on Tuesday.

Naser is a father of five from Libya. Parsonage says he is employed and has no criminal record.

Although out on bond, he still faces removal proceedings.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.
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