On Monday, U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III transferred a motion to restore Tufts graduate student Rümeysa ...

A coalition of American Jewish organizations have filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in support of a Vermont federal court’s consideration of Rümeysa ...

Federal prosecutors are appealing a Vermont District Court judge’s order requiring the government to transfer Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk from Louisiana to Vermont. Court records ...

U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III ordered on Friday that Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk be moved to Vermont no later than May 1 from Louisiana where she is currently detained.

Rümeysa Öztürk, the Turkish graduate student who spent weeks in federal immigration detention in Vermont and other states after an op-ed she co-wrote drew the ire of President Donald Trump’s ...

On Tuesday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrestled with the government’s bid to block orders releasing Mahdawi and returning Öztürk from Louisiana to Vermont as their legal challenges ...

The Stanford Daily argues the First Amendment protects journalists from arcane laws used against Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa ...

Rümeysa Öztürk’s Legal Team to Urge Appeals Court to Not Delay Student’s Transfer to Vermont Apr 29, 2025 ...

A federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision to transfer Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to custody in Vermont.

ICE agents took Öztürk out of Massachusetts, made a stop in Vermont, and then moved her to a detention center in Louisiana, where she has said she was kept in dirty and crowded conditions with other ...

A top Boston immigration official testified in federal court Tuesday that supervisors instructed him to prioritize the arrest of Tufts PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk, the first time he’s ever ...

Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts student whom ICE disappeared from the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts, in March, spent 45 days as a political prisoner of the United States of America.