US EditionTufts student from Turkey details arrest, crowded detention conditions in new court filing
- Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Tufts doctoral student, was detained near her home in Massachusetts.
- Authorities targeted Ozturk and others for allegedly attending demonstrations and supporting Palestinians.
- Ozturk gave an account of her March 25th arrest in a court filing by her lawyers.
- Ozturk said, "I felt very scared and concerned as the men surrounded me and grabbed my phone from me."
- Ozturk is now in a Louisiana detention center, facing limited resources and alleged constitutional rights violations.
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Homeland Security recently arrested a Tufts University student, Rumeysa Ozturk, for engaging in “activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans.” While the Trump administration’s arrest of Ozturk is a move in the right direction, she is just one of countless students across the country who share a radical ideology. Days after the first anniversary of the October 7 massacre which left 1,200…
Tufts student from Turkey details arrest, crowded detention conditions in new court filing - Boston News, Weather, Sports
A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey is demanding her release after she was detained by immigration officials near her Massachusetts home, detailing how she was scared when the men grabbed her phone and feared she would be killed. 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 street …
Student says she was scared when surrounded, detained
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…
Turkish student grabbed by ICE feared for her life, court document says
A Turkish graduate student detained outside her apartment by masked ICE agents last month was not told why she was being arrested and feared she was being abducted as she was transferred between cars and moved out of Massachusetts, a…
Student 'scared' when surrounded, detained
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…
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