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US Revokes Student Visa: Several Harvard students lose visa, no reasons given; university refuses to share names

Several Harvard students have got their visas revoked by the Trump administration. Amid the Donald Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown on international students, several students of Harvard got their visas revoked recently, the university confirmed without revealing any further details for privacy reasons. The Harvard International Office announced that three students and two recent graduates from […]

Rumeysa Ozturk: Judge transfers case of detained Turkish PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont

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 backs Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk after arrest over alleged Hamas ties

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 […]

Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants’ Social Media

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomats overseas to scrutinize the social media content of some applicants for student and other types of visas, in an effort to ban those suspected of criticizing the United States and Israel from entering the country, U.S. officials say. Mr. Rubio laid out the instructions in a long […]

Joshua Riibe’s name cleared in Pitt student Sudiksha Konanki disappearance case

File photo of Sudiksha Konanki (Pic credit: X) A judge in the Dominican Republic has officially cleared Iowa high school wrestling star Joshua Riibe of any involvement in the disappearance of University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki, bringing an end to the high-profile case that kept him detained on a Caribbean island for nearly two […]

Texas high school student brutally attacked while adults stood by- Video

A shocking video surfaced online showing a Texas junior high school student being brutally beaten by another pupil, while adults stood by with little urgency to stop the violence.The attack took place at Harwood junior high school in Bedford, Texas, the school confirmed in a letter to parents, as reported by WFAA. Footage of the […]

Minnesota University graduate student detained by ICE agents

A graduate student of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities has been detained by the US immigration and customs enforcement, as confirmed by university officials.The university communicated to its community through a letter that the student was apprehended at a residence away from campus on Thursday.“We are actively working to gather more details about this incident,” […]

US judge blocks Trump administration’s attempt to deport Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk accused of supporting Hamas

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. […]

Who Is Alireza Doroudi: University of Alabama student Alireza Doroudi detained by ICE, his location undisclosed

Alireza Doroudi, University of Alabama PhD student, is the latest to be detained by ICE. In the latest case of ICE arrest, Iranian student Alireza Doroudi has been detained by the Fed agents, the University of Alabama, where he is studying mechanical engineering, confirmed. But ICE records do not show which facility he has been […]

Who is Rumeysa Ozturk? Out to break Ramadan fast, Turkish student arrested by US federal agents for allegedly supporting Hamas

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 […]