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Organizers said they were demanding the Trump administration cease attacks on the 1st Amendment and demanded the immediate release of union members, including Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk.
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A protester holds signs outside of Minneapolis' U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building on Saturday after a University of Minnesota student was detained by ICE late Thursday.
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Federal prosecutors say Tufts student was moved to Vermont before judge's order to keep her in Mass.
A Tufts graduate student from Turkey was moved from Massachusetts to Vermont and then Louisiana after being arrested according prosecutors who are challenging a federal judge's authority to review her detention.
A Tufts University PhD student on a visa was arrested by immigration authorities outside of Boston on Tuesday night, according to the school and the student's lawyer. The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, is a Turkish national, according to her lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai.
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national in the US on a student visa, was transferred to Louisiana despite a federal judge ordering ICE not to remove her from Massachusetts without prior notice.
BOSTON (AP) — A Turkish student detained by federal officers as she walked along a street in a Boston suburb is the latest supporter of Palestinian causes to be swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants who have expressed their political views.
Rumeysa Ozturk's supporters say her detention is the first known immigration arrest of a Boston-area student involved in pro-Palestinian protests to be carried out by Trump's administration.
A PhD student was snatched by masked officers in broad daylight. Then she was flown 1,500 miles away
Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk was walking alone Tuesday night to meet friends at a dinner where they would break their 13-hour fast when six plainclothes officers suddenly encircled her on the street near her apartment in Somerville,
"It is chilling, and it is meant to intimidate because that’s what a dictator does," U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-7th District, said.
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