Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk was released from a Louisiana detention center Friday, six weeks after masked federal agents took her into custody amid the Trump administration ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. – A federal court today ordered the release of Rümeysa Öztürk, a former Fulbright scholar and current Tufts University Ph.D. student researching child development. This comes more than ...

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student and Turkish national, was released from federal custody on Friday, hours after a judge in Vermont ordered the Trump administration to free her.

On March 25, 2025, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University, Rümeysa Öztürk, was walking in a Boston suburb when she was ...

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 ...

“Rümeysa is a cherished member of her community, and we are relieved that she can finally return to Massachusetts. This is a victory for Rümeysa, for justice, and for our democracy.” Another of Öztürk ...

Rümeysa Öztürk has been detained at a federal facility in Louisiana after being arrested on the street in Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 25 by six plainclothes agents of Immigration and ...

Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts graduate student who was arrested by ICE on a Somerville sidewalk last month, was denied bond Wednesday by a federal immigration judge in Louisiana.

Rümeysa Öztürk is among nearly 1,000 students whose visas have been revoked, according to a tally by the Association of International Educators.

Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk was released from a Louisiana detention center Friday, six weeks after masked federal agents took her into custody amid the Trump administration ...