Judge orders ICE to immediately release Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk
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Judge orders ICE to immediately release Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk
A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of a Tuft University scholar who has been locked up in an immigration detention center for more than six weeks.Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student studying child development at the Massachusetts school, was arrested by masked plain-clothes federal agents outside her apartment in March.She is among several international students at the center of Donald Trump administration’s targeting of on-campus advocacy for Palestine during Israel’s war in Gaza. Her visa was revoked and she was moved to a remote Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in rural Louisiana, where she was placed in ..