Posted on 05/09/2025 4:07:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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 to her studies.
U.S. District Judge William Sessions in Burlington released Rumeysa Ozturk pending a final decision on her claim that she’s been illegally detained following an op-ed she co-wrote last year that criticized the school’s response to Israel’s war in Gaza.
Details of her release and travel plans were not immediately available, and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement database still listed her as detained Friday afternoon in Louisiana, where her immigration proceedings will continue. But her supporters cheered the decision, punctuating a news conference held by her attorneys with chants of “She is free!”
“What we heard from the court today is what we have been saying for weeks, and what courts have continued to repeat up and down through the litigation of this case thus far,” Jessie Rossman, legal director at the ACLU of Massachusetts, told reporters. “There’s absolutely no evidence that justifies detaining Ozturk for a single day, let alone the six and a half weeks that she has been detained, because she wrote a single op-ed in her student newspaper exercising her First Amendment right to express an opinion.”
Appearing by video for her bail hearing, Ozturk, 30, detailed her growing asthma attacks in detention and her desire to finish her doctorate degree focusing on children and social media while appearing remotely at her bail hearing from the Louisiana center. She and her lawyer hugged after hearing the judge’s decision.
“Completing my Ph.D. is very important to me,” she testified. She had been on track to finish her work...
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Obama judge, natch.
Democrats love terrorists and criminals.
Did Rubio pull her student visa?
“doctorate degree focusing on children and social media”
She comes from a country with no civil rights and she is worried about social media? Maybe she is studying how to brainwash children through social media into hating the west.
Yes.
“A senior DHS spokesperson also confirmed Ozturk’s detention and the termination of her student visa.”
So, IDK how she can remain in the US without a visa.
“Did Rubio pull her student visa?”
I knew the radical extremism would come to this. Even Trump said if you are here legally such as a Student Visa he is good with it. Now they are after anyone and everyone legally here or not. Not good optics when we welcome “white” refugees from South Africa with fanfare and kick everyone else out whether they are temporarily here legally or not.
The old becomes new again.
“...her supporters cheered the decision, punctuating a news conference held by her attorneys with chants of “She is free!”
Pete Seeger album on Columbia Records: We Shall Overcome,(Carnegie Hall Concert, June 8, 1963).
I Ain’t A-Scared of Your Jail
I ain’t a-scared of your jail
‘Cause I want my freedom
I want my freedom
I want my freedom
I ain’t a-scared of your jail
‘Cause I want my freedom
I want my freedom now!
That sounds series.
Tufts is NOT in VT.
Complete your degree elsewhere
Tough Shoveling. Complete your degree in your own country.
I guess the rule that a judge has jurisdiction over detainees in her court’s geographical jurisdiction is something we don’t pay attention to much any more.
Do you mean to tell me, all we had to do was get a Texas judge to order the release of all the J6 prisoners?
Her visa was revoked for “pro-Hamas activities.” That does not sound to me like just co-authoring a commentary.
Also wondering if she is related to the former commander of Turkish air force, who shares her last name and who recently stepped down.
This is going to be another “hill to die on” for the Dems.
Too bad our side didn’t think of that.
Guilty.
Or is that the Judge? even guiltier.
“detained following an op-ed she co-wrote last year that criticized the school’s response to Israel’s war in Gaza”
As I recollect, she and others called for disinvestment from Israel.
That may not be legal to do. I’m not a lawyer.
Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions
By Rumeysa Ozturk, Fatima Rahman, Genesis Perez and Nicholas Ambeliotis
Published Tuesday, March 26, 2024
On March 4, the Tufts Community Union Senate passed 3 out of 4 resolutions demanding that the University acknowledge the Palestinian genocide, apologize for University President Sunil Kumar’s statements, disclose its investments and divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel.
https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj
She should pay a 100% tariff on her tuition.
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