Video shows Tufts graduate student grabbed off the street by federal immigration officials
Federal authorities detained a Tufts University graduate student Tuesday while she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast with friends, her lawyer said, and the moment was caught on video.
Federal authorities detained a Tufts University graduate student Tuesday while she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast with friends, her lawyer said, and the moment was caught on video.
Department of Homeland Security agents apprehended Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national who was maintaining a valid F-1 student visa as a doctoral student, near her home, her attorney, Mahsa Khanbabai, said in a statement.
"It was only late Wednesday evening that I learned that she was sent to Louisiana, despite a federal court order that she not be removed from the state," Khanbabai said in an email early Thursday.
Protesters gathered in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Wednesday to demand her release, NBC Boston reported.
Protesters demand the release of Rumeysa Ozturk in Somerville, Mass., on Wednesday.Michael Casey / APThe U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement online detainee locator system on Wednesday night listed Ozturk as being at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile.
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