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“The university has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention,” President Sunil Kumar said in a four-page affidavit en...
From The Boston Globe
They’ve asked the judge to order that she be immediately returned to Massachusetts and released from custody.
From Associated Press
Secretary of State Marco Rubio also refused to offer any explanation of why Öztürk was detained without a court order or access to legal counsel, attacking the student for coming “into the U.S. as a ...
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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.
U.S. District Judge Denise Casper ruled to move Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk’s case to Vermont on Friday, denying the government’s motion to dismiss Öztürk’s habeas corpus petition and request to transfer the case to Louisiana,
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The school's declaration in federal court on behalf of Rümeysa Öztürk is some of the strongest pushback by a university against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.
A federal judge ordered that the case of Rümeysa Öztürk, a graduate student at Tufts University, be moved to Vermont, where she was in ICE custody before being moved to Louisiana.
The president of Tuft’s University filed a court declaration defending Rümeysa Öztürk, a Ph.D. student from Turkey who is being detained in Louisiana.
ICE claims to follow Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which would require Öztürk to have the same access to medical care as everyone else. Denying Öztürk her medication could potentially impede her disability civil rights (failures to provide ICE detainees access to care have been the subject of complaints under Section 504 in the past).
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Episcopal bishop denounces arrest of Turkish doctoral student accused of supporting HamasA bishop of The Episcopal Church has denounced the arrest and detention of a 30-year-old Turkish Muslim doctoral student federal officials accuse of supporting Hamas.
ICE was driving Öztürk through Vermont at 10:01 p.m. on March 25 when attorney Mahsa Khanbabai filed an initial complaint in the U.S. District of Massachusetts seeking her client’s release. Khanbabai and Öztürk’s family were unaware of her location at the time.
ICE claims to follow Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which would require Öztürk to have the same access to medical care as everyone else. Denying Öztürk her medication could potentially impede her disability civil rights (failures to provide ICE detainees access to care have been the subject of complaints under Section 504 in the past).
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