DHS detains grad student who advocated for Palestine and the “humanity of all people”

the Trump administration A graduate student at the University of Tatz was detained exactly one year after her authorship on “generous and human beings equal to all people”, including The Palestinians.

Romisis Ozturk, born in Türkiye, “Amboast” late on Tuesday outside her apartment, according to a statement presented by her lawyer to Boston Globe. The neighbors have seen agents in the unique cars watching their apartment for two days before the arrest, according to the perpetrator.

Her detention comes after the pro -Israel group Canary mission Oztuk was placed on “engaging in anti -Israel activity in March 2024.”

This activity, according to the group, is entirely composed of the co -authorship Editorial In The Tuffs Daily, one of the student newspapers, she and three other graduate students invited to the school to “recognize Palestinian genocide” and strip them of companies with relations with Israel, as required in decisions The student Senate passed.

The students wrote in the article, which was published on March 26, 2024: “We, as graduate students, confirm the equal dignity and humanity for all people.”

Sunil Kumar, President of Tatsu University, Sonile Kumar, admitted that Ozturk was arrested in a statement on Tuesday night, which he determined only as “international graduate students.”

Kumar said: “From what we were told later, the student’s visa has been terminated, and we are seeking to confirm whether this information is correct,” Kumar said.

The Ministry of Internal Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Mahasa Khanabay, the lawyer of Ozturk, told a salon that her client had a student advice for F-1 and was “heading to meet friends to break her Ramadan fasting” when she was arrested by the Ministry of National Security agents outside her home.

“We are unaware of her status and we were unable to contact her. No charge was filed against him [her] “We are aware,” Khanabay said in a statement.

As of Wednesday morning, migration and customs enforcement Database of the detainee Oztuk select as “in an ice custody.” He did not list a site.

On Tuesday night, Khanabay made a petition on behalf of Ozturk, in an effort to prevent her from transferring her outside the state. This request was granted by the American provincial judge, Indira Talwani, which is in a Court He announced that Oztuk “will not be transferred outside the Massachusetts area without making a prior notice of the intended move.”

Ozturk is the latest student born abroad targeting the Trump administration for Israel’s speech. Mahmoud Khalil, the permanent resident and student of Colombia University, was arrested earlier this month, and he was accused, without evidence, of being a supporter of Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls Gaza. UNESO Chung was another permanent student and Colombia University, UNESO Chung, Targeted For potential removal, according to her lawyers, although she has not yet been detained.

Baddar Khan Suri, a student at Georgetown University, was also arrested earlier this month and was accused without evidence of Hamas’s support. The judge has at least temporarily Prohibited Detah.

The arrest of Ozturk sparked invitations to protest, as activists ran a bulletin calling for the “Emergency Rally” on Wednesday evening at Powder House Square Park in Somerville. Its detention comes at a time when Israel renewed its military attack on the Gaza Strip, killing hundreds of civilians in the air strikes during the past week promising “Full destruction and destruction” if the remaining Israeli hostages do not hand over.