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Turkish graduate student ordered released from federal custody by Vermont judge returns home to Massachusetts
A day after the judge’s ruling, Rümeysa Öztürk touched down at Boston Logan International Airport. She had been held in an immigration detention facility in Louisiana for six weeks.
Appeals court rules Trump administration must move detained Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk to Vermont
A federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision to transfer Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk from a Louisiana ...
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Timeline of Rümeysa Öztürk’s detention, subsequent activism and judicial proceedings
Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on the evening of March 25 ...
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Vermont federal judge orders Rümeysa Öztürk to be released from custody
The Turkish graduate student’s detention “chills the speech of the millions and millions of individuals in the country” who, like Öztürk, are not U.S. citizens, Judge William K. Sessions III said ...
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Rümeysa Öztürk’s Court-Ordered Transfer to Vermont Thwarts Trump Administration’s Attempt to Keep Her in Louisiana
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered the Trump administration to complete the transfer of Rümeysa Öztürk from a ...
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Appeals Court Orders Trump Administration to Transfer Rümeysa Öztürk to Vermont
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals today denied the Trump administration’s attempt to further delay Rümeysa Öztürk’s transfer ...
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Court rules Rümeysa Öztürk be transferred to Vermont, denying Trump administration’s appeal
At Tuesday’s appeals court hearing, an attorney for the government disclosed for the first time that the warden of the ...
Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team plans to ask appeals court not to delay transfer to Vermont
The legal team for a Tufts University student who was detained by the federal government plans to ask a judge to permit her ...