Politics May 11 Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk back in Boston after release from Louisiana detention center By Rodrique Ngowi, Claire Rush, Associated Press
Politics May 09 Judge releases Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk who was detained by ICE A federal judge in Vermont on Friday released a Turkish Tufts University student detained in a Louisiana immigration center more than six weeks after she was arrested while walking along a street in a Boston suburb, allowing her to return… By Kathy McCormack, Associated Press
Nation May 07 Tufts student detained by ICE can be sent to Vermont for hearings, appeals court rules A federal appeals court has upheld a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England for hearings to determine whether her rights were violated and if she should be… By Kathy McCormack, Associated Press
Nation May 06 Appeals court makes no immediate decision in detention cases of Tufts and Columbia students A federal appeals court has made no immediate decisions as it considers jurisdictional issues in the cases of students detained by immigration authorities. By Kathy McCormack, Associated Press
Politics Apr 18 Detained Tufts student must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont, judge rules A Tufts University student from Turkey being held in Louisiana must be returned to New England by May 1 to determine whether she was illegally detained by immigration officials for co-writing an op-ed piece in the student newspaper, a federal… By Holly Ramer, Kathy McCormack, Associated Press
Apr 17 Immigration judge denies bond for detained Tufts student from Turkey, her lawyers say By Kathy McCormack, Associated Press The Department of Homeland Security presented one document to support their opposition to Rumeysa Ozturk's bond request: a one-paragraph State Department memo revoking her student visa, her lawyers said in the new court filing. Continue reading
Apr 14 Federal judge in Vermont considers whether he has jurisdiction of detained Tufts University student’s case By Kathy McCormack, Associated Press Rumeysa Ozturk was taken by immigration officials as she was walking in a Boston suburb on March 25. Continue reading
Mar 29 Detained Tufts student can’t be deported to Turkey without court order, judge says By Associated Press A Tufts University doctoral student who was detained this week can’t be deported to Turkey without a court order, a federal judge in Massachusetts said on Friday. Continue reading
Mar 27 Tufts student from Turkey threatened with deportation, latest Palestinian supporter swept up in crackdown By Michael Casey, Jake Offenhartz, Kathy McCormack, Associated Press Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, a doctoral student at Tufts University, was swiftly moved out of Massachusetts, a demonstration of how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is sending immigrants who are taken into custody to detention centers or deporting them altogether before… Continue reading