(BCN) -- An American Muslim civil rights group announced Monday that it has helped secure the release of British journalist and political analyst Sami Hamdi from federal immigration detention.

Hamdi, managing director of The International Interest, a geopolitical consulting and advisory publication, was detained Oct. 26 at San Francisco International Airport while he was in the middle of a U.S. speaking tour.

He was in the country on a valid visa that was "secretly" revoked by federal officials as a pretext for his detention, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which worked to secure his release with the help attorney Hassan Ahmad of the HMA Law Firm and the Muslim Legal Fund of America.

Hamdi will be allowed to return to the United Kingdom voluntarily, according to

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