Judge moves legal case of detained Tufts student
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U.S. District Judge Denise Casper on Friday moved the case to Vermont, where Öztürk was being held at the time the petition was filed.
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Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville on March 25.
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Rümeysa Öztürk, the Turkish student detained by immigration officers in Boston last month, was moved across multiple state lines as part of a “highly unusual” and “secretive” attempt to keep her from accessing her attorney or being near her home,
The President of Tufts University filed a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk, a student at the institution who is being detained by ICE. She was accused of supporting Hamas.
Some activists have sought to turn Rümeysa Öztürk’s case into a rallying cry against Israel, turning off some Jews.
The federal case against the Turkish Tufts graduate student arrested last month by ICE agents while walking down the sidewalk has been transferred to Vermont from Massachusetts.
After holding Rümeysa Öztürk at ICE’s field office in St. Albans the night of March 25, court filings show, ICE officials placed her on a flight out of the Burlington airport.
U.S. District Judge Denise Casper agreed with Öztürk's attorneys that a transfer to Vermont was warranted because that's where she was at the time of that filing.
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BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday moved the case of a detained Tufts University doctoral student to Vermont, where the Turkish national was briefly held before being moved to an immigration detention facility in Louisiana.