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A group of lawmakers, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey of Massachusetts, called for the release of detained Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk in a letter to federal offic...
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Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville on March 25.
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Rallies in support of Ozturk were held in Boston and at Tufts University on Tuesday.
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U.S. Justice Department lawyers say a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities had been moved to Vermont by the time a federal judge ordered that she be kept in Massachusetts.
Tufts doctoral student and research assistant was picked up on the street close to her home by masked federal agents in plain clothes
Öztürk was detained at about 5:15 p.m. According to the timeline provided by the government, she left Somerville in ICE custody at 5:49pm, stopped in Methuen and departed at 6:36 p.m. for Lebanon, New Hampshire. Öztürk left Lebanon for the ICE field Office in St. Albans, Vermont, arriving at 10:28 p.m.
Rumeysa Ozturk’s legal team, which now includes the ACLU, has filed an amended habeas petition in Massachusetts federal court — challenging the pro-Palestinian international
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Rumeysa Ozturk's detention sparked continued protests, allegations that federal officials broke the law, and more.
Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was detained by six plainclothes officers who pulled masks over their faces before arresting her.
In a continuation of the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown, a Tufts University graduate student, Rumeysa Ozturk, was detained by ICE after the Trump administration revoked her visa. NBC News' Stephanie Gosk reports more.