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 ...

Federal court rules Rümeysa Öztürk must be transferred to Vermont to challenge immigration detention Rümeysa Öztürk has been detained at a federal facility in Louisiana after being arrested ...

BURLINGTON — A federal judge in Vermont on Friday ordered that Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish graduate student who has spent the past six weeks in federal immigration custody — including ...

A judge on Thursday denied the government’s request to pause the transfer of Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, who is fighting deportation after she co-wrote an essay about Israel and ...

Rümeysa Öztürk was released on Friday after 5 p.m., speaking briefly to supporters and press outside of the Basile, Louisiana, facility. “Thank you so much for all the support and love,” she said.

The Vermont hearing is for a habeas case challenging the circumstances of her arrest and her confinement itself. Attorneys for Öztürk say her First Amendment rights have been violated. While it’s ...

NEW YORK – The Second Circuit Court of Appeals today denied the Trump administration’s attempt to further delay Rümeysa Öztürk’s transfer to Vermont. The appeals court ordered the government to comply ...

Federal immigration officials must transport Rümeysa Öztürk back to Vermont, a federal judge ruled Thursday after the government continued to fight to keep the Tufts PhD candidate in Louisiana ...

An immigration court has denied bond to Rümeysa Öztürk, a former Fulbright scholar and current Ph.D. student at Tufts University, according to the ACLU. Lawyers for Öztürk have accused the ...

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 ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to comply with a lower court’s ruling in Vermont last month to transfer Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish ...

Öztürk was moved to three locations, including Vermont, before she ended up in Louisiana, despite an order from a district court that said she could not be moved out of Massachusetts without notice.