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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) taunted the wife of a British journalist who is being detained by immigration agents on social media on Wednesday, after she publicly urged her husband’s release and warned that he was suffering a health emergency in custody.

U.K. journalist Sami Hamdi, a 35-year-old father of three and outspoken critic of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, was residing in the U.S. on a travel visa when he was abducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at San Francisco International Airport on October 26. His wife, Soumaya Hamdi, only found out he was being detained after a friend sent her a text message about DHS bragging about the abduction on social media.

In an interview with The Independent published Monday, Soumaya Hamdi said she was deeply concerned about her husband’s health and the conditions he was being subjected to in detention.

“He called me on Saturday and I could barely hear him on the phone,” she told the publication. “He was clearly struggling to speak properly and he said: ‘Soumaya,........

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