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Tufts student recounts her detention by ICE, says she feared for her life in new court filing
A student from Tufts University is detailing how she was detained by ICE in last month and said she feared for her life.
Tufts University student and government argue in court whether she can challenge ICE arrest
A federal judge in Vermont will hear arguments Monday on the legality of Rümeysa Öztürk’s detention at a Louisiana ...
Tufts University graduate student arrested by ICE has case moved to Vermont
The federal case against the Turkish Tufts graduate student arrested last month by ICE agents while walking down the sidewalk ...
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Tufts student details harrowing transport by ICE, lack of food and medical care in detention
Rümeysa Öztürk's sworn statement was filed alongside a motion from her attorneys seeking her immediate release from detention ...
Judge weighs Tufts student's bid for release during challenge to detention
Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, was detained on March 25 after her visa was revoked.
Tufts student ICE grabbed off street says hijab was removed, asthma wasn't treated at Louisiana facility
Rumeysa Öztürk, a doctoral student from Turkey, also accused a nurse in the facility’s medical center of removing her hijab without asking permission. “The conditions in the facility are very ...
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Feds revoke visas of students at BU, Harvard, Tufts, Berklee, UMass and more
It is not immediately clear why students’ visas were terminated. Some schools said the federal government had not notified ...
Turkish Tufts University student says was scared when surrounded, now in custody in a crowded cell
A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey detained by immigration officials says she was talking to her mother on her ...