An immigration judge denied bond to Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, whom Department of Homeland Security agents snatched off the streets of a Boston suburb and arrested.
The 30-year-old was arrested on March 25 by plainclothes immigration officers, and she’s being held in a Louisiana immigration detention facility. Her arrest was captured in a viral video.
The college student’s lawyers say the arrest and revocation of her student visa was in retaliation for an op-ed she co-wrote in her student newspaper about the war in Gaza. In the article, she wrote about wanting the university to support a student government measure acknowledging “the Palestinian genocide.”
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Her lawyers asked a federal judge in Vermont, where she was originally held, to release her.
“Ms. Öztürk has committed no crime
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