Judge moves case of Tufts University student in ICE custody
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A federal judge on Friday moved the case of a detained Tufts University doctoral student to Vermont, where the Turkish national was briefly held before being moved to an immigration detention facilit...
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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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Rümeysa Öztürk, the Turkish student detained by immigration officers in Boston last month, was moved across multiple state lines as part of a “highly unusual” and “secretive” attempt to keep her from accessing her attorney or being near her home,
The President of Tufts University filed a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk, a student at the institution who is being detained by ICE. She was accused of supporting Hamas.
ICE agents took Turkish Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk into custody near Tufts, revoked her visa and moved her to a detention center in Louisiana last week.
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U.S. District Judge Denise Casper agreed with Öztürk's attorneys that a transfer to Vermont was warranted because that's where she was at the time of that filing.
Some activists have sought to turn Rümeysa Öztürk’s case into a rallying cry against Israel, turning off some Jews.
A federal judge has moved a case involving at Tufts University doctoral student being held at an immigration facility in Louisiana to Vermont