{"id":48282,"date":"2025-11-11T16:29:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/48282\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:29:34","slug":"british-journalist-detained-by-ice-at-sfo-to-be-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/48282\/","title":{"rendered":"British journalist detained by ICE at SFO to be released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/F51A6642C78940204DFE05C5B7311EF1.jpg\" alt=\"British journalist detained by ICE in San Francisco will be released\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; A British journalist detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Francisco last month will be released after agreeing to voluntarily leave the country, according to this supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Sami Hamdi, who had been on a U.S. speaking tour, was taken into custody after his visa was revoked amid allegations of supporting terrorism. His supporters, which include the Council on American-Islamic Relations, \u00a0say the accusations were unfounded and claim Hamdi was targeted for his public criticism of Israel.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">ICE officials said Hamdi requested voluntary departure, ending a detention that had sparked concern among free speech advocates.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">It was not immediately clear when Hamdi would leave the U.S. or whether he plans to challenge the visa revocation.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/immigration\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/israel-war-hamas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel Hamas war<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; A British journalist detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Francisco last month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[14,31370,100,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-48282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-immigration","tag-israel-war-hamas","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}