ICE agents took Turkish Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk into custody near Tufts, revoked her visa and moved her to a detention center in Louisiana last week.

Tufts University is calling for grad student Rumeysa Ozturk to be “released without delay” after ICE agents grabbed her off a Somerville street.

The Tufts University PhD student who was detained by detained by immigration authorities last week and rushed out of Massachusetts released her first statement on Thursday.

The case to free a Tufts PhD student and vocally pro-Palestine Turkish national after she was detained last week took a step forward in court Thursday, with the defense and government contesting

A Tufts University student from Turkey, who was arrested last week in Massachusetts by U.S. immigration officials after advocating for Palestinians amid Israel's war in Gaza, said on Thursday that she would not be deterred.

Tufts Democrats and Voters of Tomorrow Boston held an event Tuesday evening, bringing students together to directly call elected officials to demand support for Rumeysa Öztürk, a graduate student who was detained on March 25.

Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national, was detained by federal immigration authorities late Tuesday, according to her attorney and activists.

Rumeysa Ozturk, who is from Turkey and in the United States on a student visa, was taken to a detention center in Louisiana.

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.