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A group of lawmakers, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey of Massachusetts, called for the release of detained Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk in a letter to federal offic...
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Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville on March 25.
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Ozturk's lawyers have said that her detention violates her constitutional rights, including free speech and due process.

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Tufts University says PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk should be ‘released without delay’
Tufts University is calling for grad student Rumeysa Ozturk to be “released without delay” after ICE agents grabbed her off a Somerville street.
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Protesters gathered to denounce the detention of Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was apprehended by masked immigration agents last week.
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Rümeysa Öztürk’s defense attorneys argue that Öztürk, a 30-year-old PhD student from Turkey, is being targeted for taking a public pro-Palestinian stance on Tufts campus last year in violation of her First Amendment right to free speech.
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Tufts University is seeking the release of international graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was taken into custody by federal agents.
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Who is Rumeysa Ozturk, the Turkish national facing deportation from the US?
Tufts doctoral student and research assistant was picked up on the street close to her home by masked federal agents in plain clothes
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The Pro-Israel Group That Led to Rumeysa Ozturk’s Arrest
Days after Ozturk’s arrest, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that the U.S. had revoked her student visa, linking her case to the administration’s ongoing crackdown on student activism and implying she is a protester.
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Government reveals timeline of Rumeysa Ozturk's detention in effort to get her complaint dismissed
Öztürk was detained at about 5:15 p.m. According to the timeline provided by the government, she left Somerville in ICE custody at 5:49pm, stopped in Methuen and departed at 6:36 p.m. for Lebanon, New Hampshire. Öztürk left Lebanon for the ICE field Office in St. Albans, Vermont, arriving at 10:28 p.m.
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Who is Rumeysa Ozturk? What to know about the Tufts student detained by immigration officials.
Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national, was detained by federal immigration authorities late Tuesday, according to her attorney and activists.
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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University grad student, was detained by masked ICE agents
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security accused Ozturk, a Turkish national, of "activities in support of Hamas."
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