Federal government appeals judge's order to move detained Tufts student Rumeysa Öztürk to Vermont

Federal government appeals judge's order to move detained Tufts student Rumeysa Öztürk to Vermont

The federal government is fighting a judge’s ruling that Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, who wrote an essay about Israel and the war in Gaza and is fighting deportation, must be transferred back to an immigration facility in Vermont from Louisiana.

Judge Orders Transfer of Tufts Student from Louisiana to Vermont

A Tufts University student from Turkey being 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 federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge William Sessions said he would hear Rumeysa Ozturk’s request to be released from detention in Burlington, Vermont, with a bail hearing set for May 9 and a he…