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attorneys for Öztürk accused the federal government of targeting the Tufts University graduate student because of her advocacy for Palestinian rights – a violation of Öztürk’s constitutionally protec...
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Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville on March 25.
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They’ve asked the judge to order that she be immediately returned to Massachusetts and released from custody.
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Ahead of a Boston court hearing scheduled Thursday regarding federal immigration agents' detainment of a Tufts University student, the school called for her release.
University officials called for the Turkish doctoral student's “release without delay,” according to court documents filed Wednesday.
The president of Tuft’s University filed a court declaration defending Rümeysa Öztürk, a Ph.D. student from Turkey who is being detained in Louisiana.
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The school's declaration in federal court on behalf of Rümeysa Öztürk is some of the strongest pushback by a university against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.
Chilling new footage was captured this week of masked government agents abducting another college student. This time, if was Tufts University Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar from Turkey, Rümeysa Öztürk.
An attorney for the Justice Department denied "manipulating" jurisdictions when ICE agents swiftly moved a Tufts doctoral student out of state and flew her to Louisiana last week.
Tufts University leaders said that they have no information that supports the revocation of Rümeysa Öztürk's visa or her detainment in an ICE facility in Louisiana.
Tufts University publicly backed its student Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish national detained as part of Donald Trump's crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activism.