Judge orders detained Tufts student Rumeysa Öztürk to be transferred back to Vermont
A federal judge on Friday ordered that the Tufts University student who wrote an essay about Israel and the war in Gaza and is now fighting deportation must be transferred back to Vermont.
A federal judge on Friday ordered that the Tufts University student who wrote an essay about Israel and the war in Gaza and is now fighting deportation must be transferred back to Vermont.
Judge William K. Sessions III stayed his order for four days to give the government a chance to appeal.
Rumeysa Öztürk, a 30-year-old Turkish national in the United States on a visa, is being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana.
In Friday’s ruling, the judge refused efforts by the government to dismiss her habeas petition.
He found that Öztürk “has raised significant constitutional concerns with her arrest and detention.”
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