Ozturk was arrested dramatically in front of her apartment by masked ICE agents. US district judge William Sessions has granted bail to Tufts student Rumetsa Ozturk, a Turkish student who is in the country on a student visa which the ICE revoked and arrested her after she wrote an op-ed in a university newspaper.Her arrest […]
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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, who was detained by US immigration authorities in March over “antisemitism on campus”, has described the conditions in the detention facility as “inhumane” and “unsafe.” Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was arrested by US immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) agents near her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, on March […]
Tuft University student Rumeysa Ozturk’s plea is to be heard in Vermont Monday. The verdict of the Mahmoud Khalil case was crucial as several international students were detained by ICE after Khalil and are now waiting to be deported. An immigration judge, Jamee E Comans, on Friday ruled that Khalil can be deported as his […]
Judge transfers case of detained Turkish PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont (Picture credit: AP) A federal judge on Friday ordered the case of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, to be moved from Massachusetts to Vermont, where she was briefly held after her arrest by immigration officers last week.Ozturk’s lawyers had […]
Tufts University has called for the immediate release of Rumeysa Ozturk, an international graduate student who was taken into custody by the US department of homeland security (DHS) last week. Ozturk was apprehended by masked federal agents on 25 March outside her off-campus apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, while on her way to a Ramadan iftar […]
The Trump administration’s attempt to deport a Tufts University PhD student accused of supporting Hamas has been blocked by a federal judge.Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national pursuing her doctorate at Tufts, was arrested by ICE officers in Boston on Tuesday. The viral incident showed her visibly shocked as agents confiscated her phone dressed in plainclothes. […]
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student at Tufts University in Massachusetts, was taken into custody by ICE agents near her home on Tuesday. (X) Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student at Tufts University, was “ambushed” by federal immigration officers near her off-campus residence in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Tuesday.She is a human rights activist and scholar. She co-wrote […]
Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk being detained by ICE agents in masks A Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University was detained on Tuesday by the federal immigration agents over her pro-Palestinian activism. In a surveillance video, six immigration agents could be seen in plain clothes and had covered their faces with masks when they came to […]
Boston: US federal immigration authorities detained a PhD student from Turkiye studying at Tufts University near Boston late on Tuesday and have revoked her visa, according to the university and her attorney.The Turkish national, Rumeysa Ozturk, was taken into custody near her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, according to her lawyer, who filed a lawsuit in […]
