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Tufts student recounts her detention by ICE, says she feared for her life in new court filing
A student from Tufts University is detailing how she was detained by ICE in last month and said she feared for her life.
Tufts PhD student on visa arrested by immigration authorities, school says
A Tufts University PhD student on a visa was arrested by immigration authorities outside of Boston on Tuesday night, according to the school and the student's lawyer. The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, is a ...
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Tufts student details harrowing transport by ICE, lack of food and medical care in detention
Rümeysa Öztürk's sworn statement was filed alongside a motion from her attorneys seeking her immediate release from detention ...
Judge orders transfer of detained Tufts student from Louisiana to Vermont
A federal judge ordered that Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained late last month, be transferred from a ...
Tufts student ICE grabbed off street says hijab was removed, asthma wasn't treated at Louisiana facility
Rumeysa Öztürk, a doctoral student from Turkey, also accused a nurse in the facility’s medical center of removing her hijab without asking permission. “The conditions in the facility are very ...
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Feds revoke visas of students at BU, Harvard, Tufts, Berklee, UMass and more
It is not immediately clear why students’ visas were terminated. Some schools said the federal government had not notified ...