Turkish Tufts University student released from Louisiana immigration detention center
A Tufts University student from Turkey was released from a Louisiana immigration detention center Friday, more than six weeks after she was arrested in a Boston suburb.
U.S. District Judge William Sessions in Burlington ordered the release of Rumeysa Ozturk pending a final decision on her claim that she’s been illegally detained following an op-ed she co-wrote last year that criticized the school’s response to Israel’s war in Gaza. A photo provided by her legal team showed her outside, smiling with her attorneys in Louisiana...