Federal judge orders case of Tufts student in ICE custody moved to Vermont
- A federal judge has ordered Rumeysa Ozturk's case to be moved from Massachusetts to Vermont, stating that the petition raises serious issues about her detention and arrest.
- Ozturk, a Tufts University doctoral student, was arrested by immigration agents outside her apartment in Massachusetts while heading to an Iftar dinner.
- Ozturk's lawyers argued that the government manipulated jurisdiction for a more favorable outcome in her deportation case.
- Demonstrators have protested, demanding Ozturk's release from ICE custody, emphasizing that her First Amendment rights were violated.
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Cartoon: ICE's Abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk
Last week ICE abducted Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student and Fulbright Scholar with a valid F-1 student visa. Ozturk, a Ph.D. student at Tufts University, was walking in public, in Boston, when officers in masks and plain clothes surrounded and...
Federal judge orders case of Tufts student in ICE custody moved to Vermont
A federal judge issued a Friday order transferring the case involving Rumeysa Özturk, a Tufts graduate student detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to a jurisdiction in Vermont in the “interest of justice.”
Judge denies motion to dismiss petition from detained Tufts student, transfers her challenge to Vermont - The Boston Globe
In a 26-page ruling, Judge Denise Casper denied the government’s motion to dismiss Rümeysa Öztürk's petition for release and renewed her order that she not be deported.
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