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Judge weighs Tufts student's bid for release during challenge to detention
Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, was detained on March 25 after her visa was revoked.
Judge in Vermont considers whether he has jurisdiction of detained Tufts University student’s case
A federal judge in Vermont who's considering whether he has jurisdiction over the case of a Turkish Tufts University student ...
Tufts University pushes for release of student grabbed off the street by immigration officials
The school's declaration in federal court on behalf of Rümeysa Öztürk is some of the strongest pushback by a university ...
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Lawyers for a detained Tufts student from Turkey demand she be returned to Massachusetts
Lawyers for a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities have argued that ...
Judge asks if 'constitutional crisis' looms in Tufts student's immigration case
U.S. District Judge William Sessions suggested he may order authorities to move Rumeysa Ozturk from the Louisiana detention center.
Tufts University has ‘no information to support’ the arrest of graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk, legal filings say
University officials called for the Turkish doctoral student's “release without delay,” according to court documents filed ...
Tufts student ICE grabbed off street says hijab was removed, asthma wasn't treated at Louisiana facility
Rumeysa Öztürk, a doctoral student from Turkey, also accused a nurse in the facility’s medical center of removing her hijab without asking permission. “The conditions in the facility are very ...
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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 ...
Judge moves legal case of detained Tufts student to Vermont
A federal judge has moved a case involving at Tufts University doctoral student being held at an immigration facility in ...