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Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University who was detained by ICE for 6 weeks in Louisiana​, is back in Massachusetts.
Rumeysa Ozturk was taken into custody on March 25 after her student visa was revoked by the Trump administration.
U.S. District Judge William Sessions III said her detention, over an op-ed, could chill the speech of “millions and millions” ...
The doctoral student, targeted for pro-Palestine article, recounts being ‘afraid’ and ‘crying’ during her detention.
A district court judge in Vermont had ordered that the 30-year-old doctoral student be brought to the state for hearings to determine whether she was illegally detained. Ozturk’s lawyers say her ...
U.S. District Judge William Sessions in Burlington released Rumeysa Ozturk pending a ... ed in the campus newspaper, The Tufts Daily, last year criticizing the university’s response to student ...
Ozturk was suddenly arrested by plainclothes federal agents in March in an incident captured by a surveillance camera, but ...
Student freed from US detention after writing Gaza opinion piece says she has ‘faith in American system of justice’.
SOMERVILLE, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University student from Turkey who was pulled off a street by federal agents in Somerville, Massachusetts and spent six weeks in a ...
"Rumeysa can now return to her beloved Tufts community ... On the same day Ozturk's bail request was granted, a federal appeals court ruled that Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi can ...