Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a doctor and assistant professor with a visa to work in Rhode Island, was deported to her native Lebanon over the weekend despite an ongoing dispute over her detention by federal agents and a court order intended to keep her in the United States.

On Monday evening, approximately 300 people gathered at the Rhode Island State House to protest the recent deportation of Assistant Professor of Medicine Rasha Alawieh. Alawieh — a kidney transplant specialist with Brown Medicine — has lived in the United States for six years and held an H-1B visa, a type of visa for highly specialized workers.

Homeland Security officials say a doctor from Lebanon who was deported over the weekend despite having a U.S. visa “openly admitted” to supporting a Hezbollah leader and attending his funeral.