Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk released from ICE facility on bail

Turkish Tufts rtudent detained by ICE, released and returns to Boston

A Turkish student from Tufts University in Massachusetts — released from a Louisiana immigration detention center, Friday — has returned to Boston and has vowed to continue her case in court. Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student, was held for more than six weeks after being close to the university in March. Ozturk had co-authored an open editorial criticizing Tufts response to student protesters demanding the university “acknowledge the Palestinian gen…

The Rümeysa Öztürks visa was revoked after she co-authored a critical text on her university's attitude to Israel

US Federal Judge Orders Immediate Release of Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk - Quds News Network

Washington (Quds News Network)- A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the immediate release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University, whose video-recorded arrest by masked federal agents sparked outrage amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestine students. Judge William Sessions III, who presided over her case, ruled that Ozturk had been unlawfully detained in March for little more than authoring an op-ed cr…

Rumeysa, 30, was arrested in the US for calling the war in Gaza “a Palestinian genocide” in a student newspaper. After six weeks behind bars, she was released on Friday

Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk returned to Boston, thanks community for its support

Rümeysa Öztürk said she has faith in the American justice system as she prepares for an upcoming immigration hearing. She is looking forward to resuming her studies.

Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk returns to Massachusetts after being released on bail

Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish doctoral candidate from Tufts University who was detained by ICE​, returned to Massachusetts after a judge ordered her release.