Democrats demand answers on arrest of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk
- Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen, was arrested last week in Somerville and is held in an ICE facility in Louisiana as of April 2025.
- Federal officials accuse Ozturk of engaging in activities supporting Hamas, but they have not released evidence, and her lawyers say her visa revocation and detention violate her constitutional rights.
- Students staged a walkout at Tufts and protesters, including Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, rallied outside Boston’s JFK Federal Building to demand her release amid wider concerns about targeting visa holders for political views.
- Federal court filings claim Massachusetts lacks jurisdiction since Ozturk is detained in Louisiana, where she was moved despite a judge’s order, prompting the ACLU to criticize the government's handling as a 'cruel game of jurisdictional musical chairs.'
- Ozturk’s case underscores broader debates on immigration enforcement and free speech, as officials push further actions against visa holders linked to protests and advocates warn against setting a precedent of detaining individuals for political expression.
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Inside Rümeysa Öztürk’s journey from scholar to Trump target in Louisiana cell
Rümeysa Öztürk is among nearly 1,000 students whose visas have been revoked, according to a tally by the Association of International Educators. And she is among several students and professors ...
Turkish Tufts University student says was scared when surrounded, now in custody in a crowded cell - Seymour Tribune
A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey detained by immigration officials said she was talking to her mother on her phone at the time shortly after she left her Massachusetts home when she was surrounded by several men, and “I screamed.” Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, who has since been moved to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Basile, Louisiana, provided an updated account of what happened to her as she walked along a str…
Letter to the editor: Interfaith statement on arrests of student protesters - Evanston RoundTable
As faith leaders from diverse religious traditions, we are compelled by conscience to speak out against the arrests and detentions of students Mahmoud Khalil, Leqaa Kordia and Rumeysa Ozturk. The actions taken by federal authorities against these students without due process indicate a dangerous escalation in the suppression of free speech.All three students were legally in this country and have publicly supported Palestinians in the war in Gaza…
Tonight I opened Instagram on my iPhone and the first thing I saw was a video of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish PhD student from Tufts University (Massachusetts), detained by ICE, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service. Ozturk was walking down the street when a plainclothes officer came up under a hoodie and grabbed her from her wrists as a second agent quickly approached her to snatch her phone from her hands. Both officers cornered Oz…
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