"She had called her husband, British-Tunisian commentator and journalist Sami Hamdi, earlier that day to check in on him, as he travelled around the United States on a speaking tour discussing Israel's war on Gaza. When he didn't answer, Soumaya had assumed he was at a speaking engagement. Instead, he had been detained by US immigration authorities, news that came as a complete shock, she told Al Jazeera."
"Unbeknownst to him, his visa had been revoked by US authorities two days earlier after a pressure campaign by anti-Muslim and pro-Israel social media influencers. The detention of the 35-year-old critic of Israel's genocide on Gaza has sparked a legal battle, with his lawyers filing emergency petitions against his detention and his wife, British parliamentarians and UK civil society groups demanding their government take action."
Soumaya Hamdi received a text asking whether her husband was being abducted after he did not answer a call during a US speaking tour on Israel's war on Gaza. Sami Hamdi was stopped at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday, October 26, after his visa was revoked two days earlier following a pressure campaign by anti-Muslim and pro-Israel social media influencers. US immigration authorities detained him and bundled him into a black van. Lawyers filed emergency petitions challenging his detention while British parliamentarians and UK civil society groups called for government intervention. Muslim advocacy groups view the case as part of a campaign to silence pro-Palestinian voices through immigration enforcement.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
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