Tufts student from Turkey details arrest, crowded detention conditions in new court filing
- Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Tufts doctoral student, was detained near her home in Massachusetts.
- Authorities targeted Ozturk and others for allegedly attending demonstrations and supporting Palestinians.
- Ozturk gave an account of her March 25th arrest in a court filing by her lawyers.
- Ozturk said, "I felt very scared and concerned as the men surrounded me and grabbed my phone from me."
- Ozturk is now in a Louisiana detention center, facing limited resources and alleged constitutional rights violations.
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Tufts University student and government argue in court whether she can challenge ICE arrest
(CNN) — Attorneys for Rümeysa Öztürk told a federal judge in Vermont Monday that she was unconstitutionally arrested, leading to her detention in a Louisiana immigration facility that the Tufts University PhD student described as “unsanitary, unsafe, and inhumane.”


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 students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have been detained without criminal charges.
Money And Migration: How Radical Islam Gained A Foothold On Western Campuses
Homeland Security recently arrested a Tufts University student, Rumeysa Ozturk, for engaging in “activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans.” While the Trump administration’s arrest of Ozturk is a move in the right direction, she is just one of countless students across the country who share a radical ideology. Days after the first anniversary of the October 7 massacre which left 1,200…
Tufts student from Turkey details arrest, crowded detention conditions in new court filing - Boston News, Weather, Sports
A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey is demanding her release after she was detained by immigration officials near her Massachusetts home, detailing how she was scared when the men grabbed her phone and feared she would be killed. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, who has since been moved to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Basile, Louisiana, provided an updated account of what happened to her as she walked along a street …


Student says she was scared when surrounded, detained
A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey detained by immigration officials said she was talking to her mother on her phone at the time shortly after she left her Massachusetts home when she was surrounded by several men, and "I…
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