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Rümeysa Öztürk, the Turkish national and Tufts University doctoral candidate who was arrested by ICE on March 25 and whisked off to a Louisiana detention facility.
From The Boston Globe
Tufts University is calling on ICE to release international graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk as the case goes before a federal judge in Boston Thursday afternoon.
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U.S. Justice Department lawyers say a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities had been moved to Vermont by the time a federal judge ordered that she be kept in Massachusetts.
Tufts University is calling for grad student Rumeysa Ozturk to be “released without delay” after ICE agents grabbed her off a Somerville street.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security accused Ozturk, a Turkish national, of "activities in support of Hamas."
In a world where an op-ed is grounds for deportation, democracy dies a silent death. Harvard must ensure it does not go quietly with it.
Tufts University wants a federal judge to release, without delay, Rumeysa Ozturk, the Fulbright Scholar from Turkey grabbed off the street by masked ICE agents.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Tufts PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk's visa was revoked over her pro-Palestinian activism — though he gave no evidence it was anything more than an op-ed in the Tufts student newspaper.
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national legally in the U.S. with a F-1 visa, was arrested by ICE agents near her home as she was on her way to meet friends to break her Ramadan fast, her attorney, Mahsa Khanbabai, told USA TODAY on Wednesday.
Rumeysa Ozturk’s legal team, which now includes the ACLU, has filed an amended habeas petition in Massachusetts federal court — challenging the pro-Palestinian international