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Tufts University is calling for grad student Rumeysa Ozturk to be “released without delay,” as the international student’s legal team continues to fight for her release after ICE agents grabbed her of...
Yahoo |
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville on March 25.
New Republic |
Secretary of State Marco Rubio also refused to offer any explanation of why Öztürk was detained without a court order or access to legal counsel, attacking the student for coming “into the U.S. as a ...
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The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, was detained by ICE agents in Massachusetts, driven to Vermont and flown to a detention center in Louisiana, where the government was trying to argue her court case.
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, was taken into custody by immigration officials on March 25.
U.S. District Judge Denise Casper on Friday moved the case to Vermont, where Ozturk was being held at the time the petition was filed. In doing so, she cited a federal law that says if a case is filed in the wrong venue, it can be transferred to any district in which it could have been brought if such a move serves “the interest of justice.”
Ozturk filed her case in Massachusetts, where she was arrested, but authorities moved her to Vermont and then Louisiana. She alleged in her court petition that she was targeted in retaliation for exercising her right to free speech under the First Amendment of the Constitution.
A major labor union launched a six-figure ad campaign on Tuesday featuring Tufts University Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk decrying what it called an infringement on the First Amendment. The Service
Tufts doctoral student and research assistant was picked up on the street close to her home by masked federal agents in plain clothes
A Massachusetts judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University graduate student detained by ICE for her pro-Palestinian views. Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) joins Alex Witt to discuss the latest developments in Ozturk’s case and shares his thoughts on the continuing fallout of the Trump administration’s Signal group chat breach.