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| Tufts Turkish student who penned anti-Israel op-ed returns to Massachusetts after over 6 weeks detained |
| 2025-05-11 |
| [IsraelTimes] A Tufts University student from Turkey who was swept up in the campaign by US President Donald Trump’s administration to deport pro-Palestinian campus activists, returns to Massachusetts after spending more than six weeks in an immigration detention center in Louisiana. Rumeysa Ozturk, ,…the Turkish Fulbright Scholar, whose student visa was revoked for having co-authored an opinion piece for the Tufts University student newspaper a year earlier supporting terror organization Hamas and castigating the university for not divesting from Israel-related companies. I’ve not yet seen anything about the other three co-authors — 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 was arrested after co-writing an opinion piece criticizing her school’s response to Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, tells reporters after arriving at Logan International Airport in Boston that she is excited to get back to her studies and community after a judge ordered her immediately released.“This has been a very difficult time for me,” she says at a press conference with her lawyers and local members of Congress. Ozturk thanks her supporters, including professors and students who have sent her letters, and urges the public not to forget about hundreds of other women still housed in the detention center. “America is the greatest democracy in the world,” she says. “I have faith in the American system of justice.” The 30-year-old PhD student was arrested on March 25 by masked plainclothes officers on a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville, Massachusetts, near her home, after the US Department of State revoked her student visa. Related: Rumeysa Ozturk 05/10/2025 Judge rules Tufts student detained by US immigration authorities must be released 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 |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 “America is the greatest democracy in the world,” she says. “I have faith in the American system of justice.” Predator celebrating prey's vulnerability. |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-05-11 03:30 |