Tufts, Ozturk and ICE
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Hartford Courant |
Rumeysa Ozturk’s legal team, which now includes the ACLU, on Friday filed an amended habeas petition and complaint in Massachusetts federal court — challenging the pro-Palestinian international stude...
Seattle Times |
“This is not related to student protests,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. “The individual in question was arrested after a visa revocation by the State Dept. related to a pr...
West Hawaii Today |
A lawyer soon after sued to secure her release, and on Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union joined her legal defense team, filing a revised lawsuit saying her detention violates her rights to f...
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Days after Ozturk’s arrest, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that the U.S. had revoked her student visa, linking her case to the administration’s ongoing crackdown on student activism and implying she is a protester.
Gov. Maura Healey says she has heard ‘really nothing’ from the administration over the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk or more than 300 others.
A PhD student was snatched by masked officers in broad daylight. Then she was flown 1,500 miles away
Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk was walking alone Tuesday night to meet friends at a dinner where they would break their 13-hour Ramadan fast when six plainclothes officers suddenly ...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security accused Ozturk, a Turkish national, of "activities in support of Hamas."
Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national, was detained by federal immigration authorities late Tuesday, according to her attorney and activists.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Tufts PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk's visa was revoked over her pro-Palestinian activism — though he gave no evidence it was anything more than an op-ed in the Tufts student newspaper.
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national legally in the U.S. with a F-1 visa, was arrested by ICE agents near her home as she was on her way to meet friends to break her Ramadan fast, her attorney, Mahsa Khanbabai, told USA TODAY on Wednesday.
A federal judge in Massachusetts says a Tufts University doctoral student who was detained this week can’t be deported to Turkey without a court order.