Federal appeals court temporarily halts Öztürk’s transfer to Vermont

US appeals court to consider Turkish student's transfer to Vermont

'We won't stop fighting until she is free,' says Rumeysa Ozturk's legal team - Anadolu Ajansı

Justice, Louisiana-Style, for Immigrants

Several of the recent high-profile cases of immigrant detention share something in common. The Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, University of Alabama engineering doctoral candidate Alireza Doroudi, Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk and young scientist Kseniia Petrova were all rounded up in their respective states and sent to detention centers here in Louisiana. It is no coincidence that they all were sent to the same state — a pl…

John M. Crisp: What I wish Rumeysa Ozturk could have learned in the US

By various accounts, Rumeysa Ozturk is a good student and a decent person. She was a Fulbright scholar from Turkey who earned a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Teachers College. She was working on a doctorate at Tufts University’s Department of Child Study and Human Development when she was arrested by masked plainclothes officers, handcuffed, shackled and transported, eventually, to an ICE detention center in Louisiana, where she is …

Court pauses transfer of detained Tufts student to Vermont

An appeals court in New York put Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's transfer from a Louisiana detention center to Vermont on hold Monday.

Lucas: Tufts student’s op-ed a bad read

Who knew the Trump administration read The Tufts Daily? Who knew that anybody read The Tufts Daily, for that matter. Perhaps now they should. It is the university’s student newspaper that ran the now controversial anti-Israel, pro Hamas opinion piece that led to the whisking of Rumeysa Ozturk off the streets of Somerville by federal agents. Ozturk, 30, a Turkish citizen studying for a doctorate at Tufts on a student visa, was scooped up and deta…

Have you read Rumeysa Ozturk's Op-ed? Do you know that Tuft's Republicans condemned the arrest?

Some times I respond on Facebook because I need a cat toy and sometimes because the ignorance and/or bigotry is so overwhelming I can’t stop myself She has made it pretty clear “what is in her heart and mind”. Again, that is why she is where she is....