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“The Doxxing-to-Deportation Pipeline”: Update on Abduction & Jailing of Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk
A federal judge has ordered Rümeysa Öztürk to be transferred to Vermont as she seeks to challenge what her lawyers call her “unconstitutional detention” in an ICE detention center in Louisiana. Öztürk ...
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Court Rules Rümeysa Öztürk’s Lawsuit Should Move Forward in Vermont and Orders ICE to Transfer Her Back to New England
BURLINGTON, Vt. – The U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont ruled that Rümeysa Öztürk’s challenge to her unconstitutional detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should ...
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 ...
The Tufts Daily11d
Rümeysa Öztürk describes detainment, poor conditions at ICE detention center in declaration
Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal counsel filed a motion to the United States District Court for the District of Vermont for her ...
WBUR10d
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 ...
Tufts University student and government argue in court whether she can challenge ICE arrest
Attorneys for Rümeysa Öztürk told a federal judge in Vermont Monday that she was unconstitutionally arrested, leading to her ...
American Civil Liberties Union7dOpinion
Writing an Op-Ed is Not Grounds for Deportation
The U.S. government’s escalating attacks on noncitizens’ right to free speech, including our client Rümeysa Öztürk, should ...
Rümeysa Öztürk describes arrest, asthma attacks in detention
In a motion filed in federal court, her lawyers said it’s “plain that Ms. Öztürk is being retaliated against.” ...