A Minnesota federal judge ordered immigration officials to immediately release an Indonesian man who was taken into custody in late March after allegedly overstaying his student visa, reports say. 

Aditya Harsono, 34, has been held at the Kandiyohi County Jail in Willmar since being arrested by ICE agents at his workplace in Marshall on March 27, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune. 

“The Court finds that [Harsono] has shown that he is in custody in violation of the First Amendment and is entitled to a writ of habeas corpus for his immediate release,” the newspaper cited U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez as saying in her ruling Wednesday. 

“The Court finds it is more reasonable to infer that Respondents have detained [Harsono] in retaliation for his speech than because of any professed public safety concern,” Menendez reportedly added. 

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Harsono’s attorney told Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul that his misdemeanor vandalism conviction is not a deportable offense.

“There seems to be this trend recently where international students who have engaged in some type of activism or expressed, you know, political speech or have expressed, you know, support for Palestine – something along those lines – their student visas get revoked,” Gad said to the station. 

Harsono’s lawyers also argued in court that the government targeted him over posts on the Instagram page of his clothing line, which had pictures with messages such as “Free Palestine” and “Black Lives Matter,” according to the Minnesota Star Tribune.  

Gad did not immediately respond Thursday to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.