Europe EditionDetained Tufts grad student expected to attend bail hearing remotely
- Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, was detained by plainclothes ICE agents in Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 25, 2025, and remains held in a Louisiana immigration facility.
- Her student visa was revoked amid allegations that she supported Hamas after co-authoring a pro-Palestinian op-ed, although the government has not provided concrete evidence to substantiate these claims.
- Ozturk has suffered 12 asthma attacks during detention, her attorneys claim the arrest is retaliatory, and they are petitioning for bail so she can resume her studies while immigration proceedings continue.
- A federal judge ordered Ozturk’s transfer from Louisiana to Vermont by May 1, 2025, but following a government appeal, a three-judge panel denied the appeal and mandated transfer within a week.
- She is expected to appear remotely at a bail hearing in Burlington, Vermont, on May 9, 2025, which could address potential conditions for release and has broader implications for free speech and immigration rights.
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Justice, Louisiana-Style, for Immigrants
Several of the recent high-profile cases of immigrant detention share something in common. The Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, University of Alabama engineering doctoral candidate Alireza Doroudi, Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk and young scientist Kseniia Petrova were all rounded up in their respective states and sent to detention centers here in Louisiana. It is no coincidence that they all were sent to the same state — a pl…
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John M. Crisp: What I wish Rumeysa Ozturk could have learned in the US
By various accounts, Rumeysa Ozturk is a good student and a decent person. She was a Fulbright scholar from Turkey who earned a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Teachers College. She was working on a doctorate at Tufts University’s Department of Child Study and Human Development when she was arrested by masked plainclothes officers, handcuffed, shackled and transported, eventually, to an ICE detention center in Louisiana, where she is …
Lucas: Tufts student’s op-ed a bad read
Who knew the Trump administration read The Tufts Daily? Who knew that anybody read The Tufts Daily, for that matter. Perhaps now they should. It is the university’s student newspaper that ran the now controversial anti-Israel, pro Hamas opinion piece that led to the whisking of Rumeysa Ozturk off the streets of Somerville by federal agents. Ozturk, 30, a Turkish citizen studying for a doctorate at Tufts on a student visa, was scooped up and deta…
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