Catch up quick: Masked ICE agents arrested Ozturk, a doctoral candidate from Turkey, in broad daylight in Somerville last week, and she was shuttled through multiple states that night.
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.
Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was detained by six plainclothes officers who pulled masks over their faces before arresting her.
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.
Tufts doctoral student and research assistant was picked up on the street close to her home by masked federal agents in plain clothes
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Rumeysa Ozturk's detention sparked continued protests, allegations that federal officials broke the law, and more.