TUFTS University Student Rumesa OZTURK was released from Louisiana’s immigration detention facility after a federal judge ordered her to release her.
“Thank you very much. It’s a bit tired and will take time to relax.”
Judge William Sessions said that the student met all the conditions necessary for the release and disciplined the government’s case on her.
Turkish Ph.D., a Ph.D. student in Turkey, jointly wrote critical opinions in the war of Israel in the campus newspaper. Her arrest follows the White House’s crackdown on anti -Semitism on the US campus.
The judge ordered her release on Friday and said, “Her continuous detention speaks in this country.
OZTURK greeted him for six weeks and left her heart with her heart.
She has been detained in March when she arrested her on the street of Massachusetts since March. The arrest video showed the ordinary police officers who wore masks surrounding her after celebrating Ramadan, handcuffed her, and took her to a car that was not marked. Her detention has been protested nationwide.
The US Department of Homeland Security has accused OZTURK’s “INGAG support for Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that loves American murder.”
After the judge’s ruling, DHS spokesman said, “The visa provided to foreign students to live and study in the United States is not the right to be a privilege. The Trump administration is trying to restore the law and common sense of our immigration system, and will continue to fight for arrest, detention and removal of aliens without the right to the country.”
At the beginning of this week, the judge ordered Oz Turk to be transferred to Vermont’s immigration authorities until May 14, where she was held before she moved to Luigi Anna.
On Friday, the judge said that it should be released immediately without travel restrictions. So she said she could go to Vermont or Massachusetts with nodules as needed.
He listened from many Witnesses in the case, including her doctor and Tufts University Professor Ozturk. The government did not call the witness at the Friday hearing.
Among her testimony she actually provided, OZTURK told the court about Fulbright Scholarships and Ph.D. She said she had a deterioration of asthma during detention, and at some point, she had to take a short rest after being attacked by the camera.
The session judge said Oz Turk raised a “very real” claim that her first amendment was infringed on the freedom and legitimate procedures of the media. He said her OZTURK was the only evidence of OZTURK.
According to court journalists, “that is the fact,” he said. “There is no evidence that she defended violence or violence.”
In the statement, American Civil Liberties Union, who represents OZTURK, said that she was “happy” by her release.
NOOR ZAFAR, a senior employee of ACLU, said, “Rümeyysa can now return to your beloved TUFTS community, resume study and start teaching again. No one must be imprisoned to express their beliefs by the government. “
TUFTS’s spokesman added that the university was “happy” to the judge’s ruling.
The Trump administration has detained some international students (some legal residents) organized to support the Palestinians.
Last week, the judge ordered the government to release Mosen Madoi, a student at Columbia University after detaining him in a naturalization interview.
The 34 -year -old resident grew up at Westbank’s refugee camp and was held at a facility in Vermont.
One of the highest profile cases so far is related to Colombian graduates, Mahmud Khalil, which is a famous professional Palestine activist, which remains in Louisiana detention facilities.
