Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk returns to Massachusetts after being released on bail

Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish doctoral candidate at Boston’s Tufts University who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement back in March, returned to Massachusetts on Saturday …
Will Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk be released from ICE custody?

A judge has ordered that Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk be released on bail from ICE custody after her visa was revoked by the Trump administration.

Who is Rumeysa Ozturk?

Rumeysa Ozturk after she was released from a detention center in Basile, Louisiana. CBS Boston Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish doctoral candidate from Tufts University who was detained by ICE, returned to Massachusetts after a judge ordered her release.

Who is Ozturk from Tufts?

MORE: Tufts PhD student on visa arrested by immigration authorities, school says Wearing a hijab, glasses, and an orange jumpsuit, Ozturk testified via Zoom about the humanitarian work she is involved in as part of her studies in child development. She also testified about her involvement in school groups and projects.

Did Ozturk get her student visa revoked?

Her student visa had been revoked several days earlier, but she was not informed of that, her lawyers said. Ozturk’s lawyers first filed a petition on her behalf in Massachusetts, but they did not know where she was and were unable to speak to her until more than 24 hours after she was detained.

What happened to Ozturk?

Ozturk was detained on a Somerville sidewalk by masked plainclothes ICE officers on March 25. She was on her way to the Tufts interfaith center to break her Ramadan fast at an iftar dinner with her friends. Surveillance video of her arrest was released online. A neighbor can be heard asking, “Is this a kidnapping?” in the video.

Why did a judge SLAM Ozturk?

U.S. District Judge William Sessions slammed the government in ordering Ozturk released while their case against her proceeds, saying that the government had not produced any evidence against her aside from an op-ed she co-wrote in her student newspaper last year.