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Judge says detained Tufts student must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont
- A federal judge ordered the transfer of Rumeysa Ozturk from Louisiana to Vermont to assess her detention's legality due to potential violations of her rights under U.S. law.
- Judge William S. Sessions stated that Ozturk presented significant evidence for her allegations of free speech and due process violations related to her detention.
- Ozturk's detention stems from her involvement in co-authoring an op-ed that criticized Tufts University's response to pro-Palestinian activism, which the government links to her visa revocation.
- The judge dismissed the government's evidence for Ozturk's detention as insufficient, highlighting constitutional rights protections extending even to non-citizens in the U.S.
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Appeals court orders detained grad student's return to New England
One day after a panel of judges grilled a government attorney over their attempt to keep a Tufts University grad student detained in Louisiana, the judges ordered that the student be returned to New England.
ICE-Detained Pro-Palestinian Tufts Student Must Be Moved to Vermont, Judge Rules
U.S. District Judge William Sessions issued an order on April 18 ruling that Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk be moved to Vermont from Louisiana per her request. Ozturk, 30, a Turkish national involved in pro-Palestinian activities, was detained by federal immigration authorities in Massachusetts on March 25 after her visa was revoked. According to the court filing, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents took Ozturk to New Hamps…
Federal judge orders detained Türkiye student be returned to Vermont to await trial
A federal judge on Friday ordered Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk to be returned to Vermont, where she will remain in custody, pending a bail hearing. Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was detained by Department of Homeland (DHS) agents near the university’s Massachusetts campus last month after her F-1 student visa was revoked. Ozturk was briefly held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Vermont before sh…
Judge: Detainee must be returned to New England
A Tufts University student from Turkey held in a Louisiana immigration facility must be returned to New England no later than May 1 to determine whether she was illegally detained for co-writing an op-ed piece in the student newspaper, a…
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