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The transfer was so furtive that not even the government’s own lawyers knew where she was, Ms. Lafaille, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, told the court.
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“The university has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention,” President Sunil Kumar said in a four-page affidavit en...
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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.
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
Lawyers for a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities have argued that her case should be handled by the federal court in Massachusetts