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Ozturk's attorneys argue her detention violates her constitutional rights to free speech and due process, and have asked for her immediate return to Massachusetts and for her to be freed from governm...
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Minutes after Rümeysa Öztürk was taken into custody on a Somerville sidewalk by masked ICE agents at 5:49 p.m. on March 25, according to the government, she was quickly sent on a circuitous trip: fro...
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Her case has drawn international attention as the Trump administration attempts to deport Öztürk and others under a relatively obscure provision of federal immigration law that allows for the deportat...
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Judge in Boston to hold hearing on detained Tufts Ph.D. student, as DOJ says case should be heard in Louisiana
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.
Federal judge to hold hearing after Tufts University student detained by ICE, moved out of Mass.
Rumeysa Ozturk was surrounded by six masked ICE agents as she walked along a street in Somerville and rushed out of the state.
Federal hearing set in case Tufts graduate student detained by ICE, sent to Louisiana
A federal judge in Boston overseeing the immigration case of Rümeysa Öztürk will hear from lawyers seeking to keep her in the US and from federal prosecutors working to deport the Tufts student to her native Turkey.
In new legal filings, US officials defend detention of Tufts PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk
Rümeysa Öztürk’s defense attorneys argue that Öztürk, a 30-year-old PhD student from Turkey, is being targeted for taking a public pro-Palestinian stance on Tufts campus last year in violation of her First Amendment right to free speech.
Detained student taken from Mass. before judge ordered her kept there, govt says
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 b
Tufts graduate student was held in Vermont after arrest in Massachusetts by immigration agents, feds say
After detaining Rümeysa Öztürk at ICE’s field office in St. Albans the night of March 25, court filings show, ICE officials placed her on a flight out of the airport in Burlington.
Detained Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk was one of several sent by ICE to Louisiana. Here’s why.
Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University graduate student, was arrested in Massachusetts and sent to the South Louisiana ICE processing center in the swamplands of Evangeline parish in Basile. Sending detainees to the cluster of remote immigration detention centers known as “Detention Alley” in the south is a common practice.
Editorial: Punishing free speech erodes principles that make our country great
The arrests and attempted deportations of students just because they “create a ruckus,” as Marco Rubio said, are chilling.
Legal scholar sees immigrant arrests as a 'struggle for the soul of the country'
As ICE agents arrest international students at campuses across the U.S., professor Daniel Kanstroom discusses the law — and the human cost. He says the round-ups are designed to "send a message."
Tufts University has ‘no information to support’ the arrest of graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk, legal filings say
University officials called for the Turkish doctoral student's “release without delay,” according to court documents filed Wednesday.
Tufts University says PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk should be ‘released without delay’
Tufts University is calling for grad student Rumeysa Ozturk to be “released without delay” after ICE agents grabbed her off a Somerville street.
Attorneys for Tufts University student accuse government of ‘secretive’ effort to move her across state lines
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,
ICE pulled a Tufts student off the street. New docs reveal what happened next
Within an hour of sweeping Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk off a sidewalk near the Somerville campus last week, immigration agents were quickly on the move.
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Labor union protests in Boston, calling for Tufts student to be released from ICE custody
The Service Employees International Union rallied Tuesday in downtown Boston for the release of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Attorney General Andrea Campbell attended.
Tufts nurse recalls helping victims injured in Boston box truck crash
"'I’m here,'" nurse Veronika Testa recalled telling the injured persons as she tended to them. "'You’re going to be OK. The ambulance is coming, we can hear them. They’re on their way. Just hang on.'"
A timeline of how the arrest of a Tufts student by federal agents unfolded, and where the case stands
Nearly a week ago, masked agents seized a Tufts student in Somerville and whisked her away in an unmarked SUV. Her arrest has sparked a legal fight, calls for her release, and questions about what could happen next.
College costs top $100K a year for the first time at these Boston-area schools
One local college will have a total sticker price for undergraduate students, including books and health care, of more than $100,000 for the first time.
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