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| Judge rules Tufts student detained by US immigration authorities must be released |
| 2025-05-10 |
The process continues. [IsraelTimes] A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to release a Tufts University student from Turkey who has been held for over six weeks in a Louisiana immigration detention facility after she co-wrote an opinion piece criticizing her school’s response to Israel’s war in Gaza.US District Judge William Sessions, during a hearing in Burlington, Vermont, granted bail to Rumeysa Ozturk, ,…age 30, Turkish PhD student and Fulbright Scholar, whose student visa was revoked for having co-authored an opinion piece for the Tufts University student newspaper a year earlier supporting the listed terror organization Hamas and castigating the university for not divesting from Israel-related companies. I’ve not yet seen anything about the other three students involved — perhaps that association is what got her in trouble. No doubt her naturalized, activist Iranian-American immigration lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai, is also somehow objectionable … who is at the center of one of the highest-profile cases to emerge from Republican President Donald Trump’s campaign to deport pro-Palestinian activists on American campuses.The judge ruled shortly after a federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s bid to re-detain Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian campus activist who a different judge in Vermont ordered released last week after immigration authorities arrested him as well. The Jordan-born, Palestinian graduate philosophy student at Columbia boasted to a Vermont Gun shop owner that he had plenty of experience with guns, having used them to kill Jews back home in Palestine — he started his career throwing rocks at IDF soldiers as a child and led anti-Israel Palestinian student groups since arriving in America a decade ago, true to the traditions in his family where a cousin is an Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade field commander. He is president of the anti-Israel Palestinian Students Union at Columbia, since 10/7 organizing violent anti-Israel protests and taking the opportunity to beat up Jews, for which he was arrested thrice; he did not think any of this an issue before he was arrested for a revoked green card on his way to his scheduled citizenship exam. Ozturk’s arrest on March 25 by masked, plainclothes law enforcement officers on a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville, Massachusetts, near her home, was captured in a viral video and occurred after the US Department of State revoked her student visa.The sole basis authorities have provided for revoking her visa was an opinion piece she co-authored in Tufts’ student newspaper criticizing the school’s response to calls by students to divest from companies with ties to Israel and to “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide.” …which does not mean it’s actually the only reason they have, just the only one shared. Related: William Sessions 07/01/2006 Researcher gets jail sentence for falsifying work William Sessions 01/10/2006 Ali al-Timimi demands to know whether or not he was spied on Related: Rumeysa Ozturk 04/26/2025 Homes raided as part of Michigan crackdown on pro-Palestinian vandalism targeting Jews Rumeysa Ozturk 03/30/2025 US judge halts deportation of Tufts Turkish student accused of anti-Israel activism Rumeysa Ozturk 03/28/2025 As Turkish student held, Rubio says US revoked visas of over 300 anti-Israel ‘lunatics’ Related: Mohsen Mahdawi 05/04/2025 University Jew-hate/pro-Paleo/Black Bloc nexus: Round up for the week of 4/27-5/5 Mohsen Mahdawi 04/23/2025 Columbia University students organize sit-in to support colleagues threatened with deportation Mohsen Mahdawi 04/20/2025 University/Israel hate/Black Bloc nexus: week of 4/13-4/19 |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
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| Posted by: DarthVader 2025-05-10 11:17 |
| #2 Government cannot do everything - it's time for some citizens' initiatives. |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-05-10 01:28 |
| #1 Aiding and abetting terrorists is terrorism. Charge the judges and put them in prison. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2025-05-10 00:37 |