Some activists have sought to turn Rümeysa Öztürk’s case into a rallying cry against Israel, turning off some Jews.

U.S. District Judge Denise Casper ruled to move Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk’s case to Vermont on Friday, denying the government’s motion to dismiss Öztürk’s habeas corpus petition and request to transfer the case to Louisiana,

Chancellor Javier Reyes says their student status has also been terminated by the federal government. It's the latest action by the Trump administration targeting international students.

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish PhD student at Tufts University, was arrested by plainclothes federal agents on a Somerville sidewalk last week.

The president of Tuft’s University filed a court declaration defending Rümeysa Öztürk, a Ph.D. student from Turkey who is being detained in Louisiana.

The legal team of the Tufts graduate student who was arrested by ICE celebrated the decision by a federal judge on Friday to continue the case in Vermont instead of Louisiana. “Today’s ruling brings us one step closer to restoring Rümeysa Öztürk’s rights,

ICE was driving Öztürk through Vermont at 10:01 p.m. on March 25 when attorney Mahsa Khanbabai filed an initial complaint in the U.S. District of Massachusetts seeking her client’s release. Khanbabai and Öztürk’s family were unaware of her location at the time.

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).