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Tufts student details harrowing transport by ICE, lack of food and medical care in detention
Rümeysa Öztürk's sworn statement was filed alongside a motion from her attorneys seeking her immediate release from detention ...
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‘A risk no matter what’: Professors discuss Kumar’s affidavit supporting Rümeysa Öztürk
The Office of the President sent a declaration signed by University President Sunil Kumar in support of Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk, in an email to the Tufts community on April 2. Executed ...
American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign ...
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Writing an Op-Ed is Not Grounds for Deportation
The U.S. government’s escalating attacks on noncitizens’ right to free speech, including our client Rümeysa Öztürk, should ...
Warren calls on State Dept. to release memo on Rümeysa Özturk’s detention
U.S. Sen Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic lawmakers in Massachusetts are demanding documentation supporting the ...
The Burlington Free Press on MSN4d
Federal judge in VT weighs jurisdiction in Rumeysa Ozturk case. What happened in court
A federal judge in Vermont heard arguments Monday in the case of Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University graduate student who ...
Rally outside of Burlington federal courthouse over detained Tufts University student
Lawyers for Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk argued in federal court Monday for her release or transfer back to ...
Judge grills both sides in Vermont hearing for detained Tufts graduate student seeking release from federal custody
Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested in Somerville by masked immigration agents on March 25 and is being held in a Louisiana detention ...