Federal Court blocks ICE from Transferring Sami Hamdi out of California

The British Tunisian political commentator arrested by US immigration authorities last week won’t be moved out of California, where he’s receiving legal support, a rights group says. “A federal court has temporarily blocked ICE from transferring British journalist Sami Hamdi out of California,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a statement. CAIR and Hamdi’s legal team told Al Jazeera he was granted medical attention after facing a health complication and was visited by two people. His lawyers said he was doing better on Sunday. In a post on X, Adnan Hussain, a UK independent MP, called for Hamdi’s immediate release. “Appalling that British national Sami Hamdi has not yet been released from US detention and allowed to return home to his family.” On Friday, a demonstration was organised by CAIR outside the San Francisco Immigration Court, calling for Hamdi to be freed. (Al Jazeera)