A federal judge on May 9 ordered the release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, from immigration detention, more than six weeks after her visa was revoked and she was taken into custody in Massachusetts.
U.S. District Judge William Sessions granted bail during a hearing in Burlington, Vermont, allowing Ozturk to be released from the Louisiana detention facility where she has been held since late March.
Her case is among the most high-profile involving a noncitizen student detained amid the Trump administration’s efforts to combat anti-Semitism and remove individuals linked to campus activism over the war in Gaza, which was triggered by terrorist group Hamas’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023….