"There has been no evidence that has been introduced by the government other than [an] op-ed," a federal judge said on Friday. "I mean, that literally is the case."

Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student at Tufts, has been held for about six weeks in Louisiana. She says conditions there significantly worsened her asthma, and that the government violated her constitutional rights.

A Vermont judge on Friday ordered the government to release Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk while her case proceeds, making her at least the second student freed from custody under the Trump administration.