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Tufts student recounts her detention by ICE, says she feared for her life in new court filing
A student from Tufts University is detailing how she was detained by ICE in last month and said she feared for her life.
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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 graduate student who’s pro-Palestinian detained by federal authorities in Somerville
Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student and Fulbright Scholar from Turkey, was taken into custody Tuesday evening by Department of Homeland Security agents on the sidewalk outside her Somerville off-campus ...
Judge orders transfer of detained Tufts student from Louisiana to Vermont
A federal judge ordered that Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained late last month, be transferred from a ...
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Feds revoke visas of students at BU, Harvard, Tufts, Berklee, UMass and more
It is not immediately clear why students’ visas were terminated. Some schools said the federal government had not notified ...
Tufts student ICE grabbed off street says hijab was removed, asthma wasn't treated at Louisiana facility
Rumeysa Öztürk, a doctoral student from Turkey, also accused a nurse in the facility’s medical center of removing her hijab without asking permission. “The conditions in the facility are very ...