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Rumeysa Ozturk returns to Mass. after being released on bail
Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish doctoral candidate from Tufts University who was detained by ICE​, returned to ...
Turkish student freed after 6 weeks in ICE custody has 'faith' in US judicial system
Rumeysa Ozturk was arrested after co-writing an opinion piece criticizing Tufts University for failing to "acknowledge the Palestinian genocide." ...
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Vermont federal judge orders Rümeysa Öztürk to be released from custody
The Turkish graduate student’s detention “chills the speech of the millions and millions of individuals in the country” who, like Öztürk, are not U.S. citizens, Judge William K. Sessions III said ...
Detained Tufts student must be transferred to Vermont, appeals court rules
The ruling is a setback to the Trump administration crackdown on international students involved in pro-Palestinian activism.