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In a 26-page ruling, US District Judge Denise Casper denied the government’s motion to dismiss Öztürk’s petition for release and its alternative request to transfer the case to Louisiana.
From The Boston Globe
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville on March 25.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio also refused to offer any explanation of why Öztürk was detained without a court order or access to legal counsel, attacking the student for coming “into the U.S. as a ...
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ICE Is Reportedly Violating Detained Tufts Student’s Right to Medical Care
ICE claims to follow Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which would require Öztürk to have the same access to medical care as everyone else. Denying Öztürk her medication could potentially impede her disability civil rights (failures to provide ICE detainees access to care have been the subject of complaints under Section 504 in the past).
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Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk detained by ICE releases first public statement since arrest
"Efforts to target me because of my op-ed in the Tufts Daily calling for the equal dignity and humanity of all people will not deter me from my commitment to advocate for the rights of youth and children.
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Jews at Tufts are furious over ICE seizing a pro-Palestinian grad student. But they’re wary of joining protests for her.
Some activists have sought to turn Rümeysa Öztürk’s case into a rallying cry against Israel, turning off some Jews.
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Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University graduate student, was arrested in Massachusetts and sent to the South Louisiana ICE processing center in the swamplands of Evangeline parish in Basile. Sending detainees to the cluster of remote immigration detention centers known as “Detention Alley” in the south is a common practice.
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