Judge orders detained Tufts student Rumeysa Öztürk to be transferred back to Vermont
A federal judge ordered Friday that Tafs University, who wrote an article on Israel and the war in Gaza and is now fighting the deportation It should be transferred again to Vermont.
Judge William K. The third will have a four -day order to give the government an opportunity to appeal.
Rumeysa öztürk, a 30 -year -old Turkish citizen in the United States, is kept with a visa, at a detention center for migration and customs in Louisiana.
On Friday’s ruling, the judge rejected the government’s efforts to refuse to seek it.
It was found that öztürk “raised great constitutional concerns with her arrest and detention.”
Doctorate student in Tatz Arrested March 25 In Sompellus, Massachusetts, It was accused by the Ministry of Internal Security with the participation of “activities to support Hamas.”
she sharingOut An article of opinion In 2024, for the student newspaper, which called for Tuffs to “recognize the Palestinian genocide”, which was requested by the university of university students in a decision.
The article criticized the university’s leadership for responding to the decisions of the student government, which “reveals its investments and stripping them from companies with direct or indirect relations to Israel.”
One of her lawyers, Mahasa Khanabay, said on Friday: “One of the universities that defend human rights and freedom of the Palestinian people should not lead to prison,” said one of her lawyers, Mahasa Khanabay, on Friday. “Our immigration laws should not be manipulated to tear people away from their homes and loved ones.”
On Friday, Ozturk’s lawyers called for victory, and said that the federal government was trying to manipulate the place of hearing its case so that it could try to prefer it.
Friday’s ruling allows Ozturk in the nursery in Vermont, while her seam appearing in front of the ice, which challenges her detention, continues in the Federal Court, as well as the issue of removal in the Immigration Court in Louisiana.
The Ministry of Justice refused to comment on Friday.
Öztürk is one of the number of international students in the United States about visas that the Trump administration is trying to deport for their actions that protest the behavior of Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza, which he launched after Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Tatz University defended öztürk and has it She submitted a petition to release her reservation. The university said that the opinion article did not violate its policies and was compatible with its position in freedom of expression.
“The university does not have other information indicating that it acted in a way that violates the university’s understanding of the Immigration and Genealical Law,” the university leadership He said in an advertisement Earlier this month.
