US EditionTufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk released from ICE facility on bail
- Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Öztürk was released on bail on May 9, 2025, after more than six weeks detained at an ICE facility in Louisiana.
- Her detention followed her arrest near her Somerville, Massachusetts home and the revocation of her student visa without prior notice by the State Department.
- Federal officials alleged without evidence that Öztürk supported Hamas, citing her co-authored pro-Palestinian op-ed as the basis for detention and visa revocation.
- U.S. District Judge William Sessions ordered her immediate release without bail conditions or travel limitations, citing concerns that continued detention could suppress constitutionally protected speech.
- Öztürk's release reflects ongoing legal challenges over immigration enforcement’s limits on free speech and due process for international students involved in activism.
64 Articles
64 Articles
Judge blasts 'chilling' effect on free speech, orders release of Tufts student detained for pro-Palestine stance
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student working on her doctorate at Tufts University, was freed from immigration detention on May 9, 2025, after a federal judge ruled that holding her violated her First Amendment rights. Ozturk’s arrest on March 25, 2025, caused widespread anger among students, professors, and civil rights activists. She was taken into custody on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, by immigration officers who then moved her to a de…
Turkish Tufts rtudent detained by ICE, released and returns to Boston
A Turkish student from Tufts University in Massachusetts — released from a Louisiana immigration detention center, Friday — has returned to Boston and has vowed to continue her case in court. Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student, was held for more than six weeks after being close to the university in March. Ozturk had co-authored an open editorial criticizing Tufts response to student protesters demanding the university “acknowledge the Palestinian gen…
US Federal Judge Orders Immediate Release of Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk - Quds News Network
Washington (Quds News Network)- A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the immediate release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University, whose video-recorded arrest by masked federal agents sparked outrage amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestine students. Judge William Sessions III, who presided over her case, ruled that Ozturk had been unlawfully detained in March for little more than authoring an op-ed cr…
Rümeysa Öztürk freed, as Judge Warns of Grave Threat to Free Speech
“There has been no evidence that has been introduced by the government other than the op-ed,” U.S. District Judge William Sessions III said, referring to Öztürk’s article urging divestment from Israel. By Brett Wilkins | – ( Common Dreams ) – Rümeysa Öztürk, one of several pro-Palestine scholars kidnapped and imprisoned by the Trump administration under its dubious interpretation of an 18th-century law and a Cold War-era national security measur…
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 49% of the sources lean Left
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
Ownership
To view ownership data please Upgrade to Vantage
