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Foreign graduate student taken into custody for supporting the Palestinians [1]
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Date: 2025-03-26
An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated.
x Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk being detained by ice Via @bedford.bsky.social — David Leavitt 🔜 #PaxEast (@davidleavitt.bsky.social) 2025-03-26T19:01:15.768Z
Her offense?
Ms. Ozturk was listed as one of several authors of an opinion essay published last March in the Tufts student newspaper. The essay criticized university leaders for their response to demands that Tufts “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide” and divest itself from companies with ties to Israel.
The footage of Rumeysa Ozturk’s arrest — a student here legally — is disturbing. Based on what we now know, it is alarming that the federal administration chose to ambush and detain her, apparently targeting a law-abiding individual because of her political views. This isn’t public safety, it’s intimidation that will, and should, be closely scrutinized in court.”
Ms. Ozturk was interested in child development and how children understand concepts like death and life, the professor said.
“She is a person who wouldn’t hurt a soul,” Ms. Yaylaci said in an interview on Wednesday. “She is extremely sensitive about human rights, about not hurting people, about diversity. She is a person who wants to include everyone.”
Her current status? In a Louisiana federal detention facility. Apparently reserved for non-citizens who oppose Israel.
Late on Tuesday, Judge Indira Talwani of the Federal District Court in Massachusetts had ordered the government not to move Ms. Ozturk out of the state without advance written notice to the court. It was not immediately clear on Wednesday whether the government had provided written notice of her removal from Massachusetts.
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