US EditionJudge orders release of Tufts University doctoral student from ICE custody
- U.S. District Judge William Sessions ordered the release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey, on Friday from a Louisiana immigration detention center.
- Ozturk was detained over six weeks ago after her student visa was canceled based on a review that linked her co-authorship of an op-ed critical of Tufts University's response to Israel's war in Gaza to actions deemed potentially harmful to U.S. Foreign policy.
- Sessions highlighted that the government provided no evidence beyond the op-ed to justify Ozturk's arrest, while she expressed serious worries about violations of her constitutional rights and her health, having suffered a dozen asthma attacks since being detained.
- The judge ordered Ozturk's release on her own recognizance without travel restrictions, stating she is neither a danger to the community nor a flight risk, though he may amend conditions after consulting her lawyers.
- Ozturk’s release while awaiting the court’s final ruling on her claim of unlawful detention was met with applause from supporters, who highlighted the significance of her academic pursuits and questioned when condemning oppression became a punishable offense.
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Pressley warns ‘this could be anyone’ upon Rümeysa Öztürk’s return to Boston
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), alongside Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), welcomed Tufts University Ph.D. student Rümeysa Öztürk back to Boston after she was detained for nearly two months over a campus op-ed that condemned the war in Gaza. The lawmakers spoke about Öztürk’s return at the city’s Logan Airport on Saturday, after a federal judge ordered…
Will "Little Marco" explain, "What Peace Process"? - LewRockwell
Writes Patrick Foy: Tufts doctoral student, Ms. Rumeysa Ozturk, has been ordered released from a Louisiana ICE detention center. Hurrah! You may recall her kidnapping off the street in Somerville, Massachusetts some weeks ago. What a lovely country. What was her crime? She co-wrote an op-ed in the college newspaper in support of the Palestinians. That’s it. A thought crime. Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State, is the front man who ordered and …
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Judge orders immediate release of Tufts detainee
A federal judge in Vermont on Friday released a Turkish Tufts University student detained in a Louisiana immigration center more than six weeks after she was arrested while walking along a street in a Boston suburb, allowing her to return…
Turkish student Rümeysa Öztürk leaves Louisiana's immigration detention centre
Rümeysa Öztürk, the Turkish student at Tufts University, has left the immigration detention centre in Louisiana for six weeks on Friday afternoon. The detention of this 30-year-old woman caused a stir at the end of March, after a handful of hooded Immigration and Customs Control (ICE) officers detained her and handcuffed her on the street in a suburb of Massachusetts. The case sparked outrage from various sectors of society, especially when it b…
Judge orders bail for Tufts University pro-Palestinian student detained by ICE – CLG News
Judge orders bail for Tufts University pro-Palestinian student detained by ICE | 9 May 2025 | Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University doctoral student grabbed by ICE in Massachusetts and imprisoned in Louisiana, was granted bail from ICE detention Friday. U.S. District Judge William Sessions said at the end of the hearing that Ozturk raised “very substantial” and “very significant” claims of First Amendment and due process rights violations in her …
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