Judge orders detained Tufts student Rumeysa Öztürk to be transferred back to Vermont

nbc News - 19/04
The student was grabbed off the street by immigration officials. The Trump administration is seeking to deport her after she co-wrote an essay about Israel and Gaza.

A federal judge on Friday ordered that the Tufts University student who wrote an essay about Israel and the war in Gaza and is now fighting deportation must be transferred back to Vermont.

Judge William K. Sessions III stayed his order for four days to give the government a chance to appeal.

Rumeysa Öztürk, a 30-year-old Turkish national in the United States on a visa, is being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana.

In Friday’s ruling, the judge refused efforts by the government to dismiss her ha...
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