A Turkish university student was seen on the camera that was held by ICE agents.
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, who is currently studying at Tufts University in Massachusetts, was made on Tuesday by a group of individuals near her house outside the campus near her house outside the campus.
According to her lawyer, Ozturk had been on her way to meet friends for iftar, a meal to break her Ramadan quickly when she was taken off the street.
Images of her that are taken in show that a group of six people approach her from corners, all of which are masked and wear gold identification baths.
While two men are approaching her, she can be heard of horror and visibly shakes in the clip.
“We are the police,” hear members of the group say in the video. A man is heard on the camera and says, “Why do you hide your faces?”
The group put her handcuffs in and took her backpack from her before she pulled her to a black SUV across the street.
Her lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai said they were agents from the Ministry of Interior Security who had taken Ozturk.
Rumeysa Ozturk was brought home by a group of individuals near her house outside the campus on Tuesday
In this image of Security Camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, held by the Ministry of Homeland Security Agents in a street in Sommerville, Massachusetts, Tuesday 26 March 2025. (AP Photo).
Khanbabai said: 'We are not aware of her place of residence and have not been able to contact her.
“To date, no charges have been filed against rumeysa that we are aware of.”
Khanbabai said Ozturk had a valid student visa as a PhD student with Tufts officials who said she was told that her visa had ended.
University President Sunil Kumar said on Tuesday evening in an e -mail at the faculty that the school tried to confirm whether that information is true. “
In a statement on Wednesday, Kumar said: “The university did not have a proposal of this incident and did not share any information with federal authorities prior to the event, and the location where this took place was not affiliated with Tufts University.”
The American district judge Indira Talwani issued an order on Tuesday and gave the government until Friday to answer why Ozturk was held.
Talwani also ordered that Ozturk would not be moved outside the Massachusetts district without providing prior notice.
Once the notification has been given, Ozturk is not moved from the district for at least 48 hours, Talwani wrote.
Ozturk's detention comes after President Trump had signed an order on January 29 that a performance against anti -Semitism, including university campuses
The group stopped her handcuffs and grab her backpack from her before she pulled her to a black SUV across the street
The DHS said in a statement: 'Rumesya Ozturk is a graduate student of Turkish National and Tufts University, granted the privilege to be on a visa in this country.
'DHS and ICE studies found Ozturk who are involved in activities to support Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that enjoys the murder of Americans.
'A visa is a privilege, not a right. Terrorists glorify and support that Americans kill is the Visa Outsection site to be terminated. This is commonsense security. '
Last March, Ozturk was one of the four students who authorized an OP-Ed in the Tufts piece in the Tufts every day.
The piece criticized the university's response to the senate of the community of the community that resolutions spends and demanded that Tufts 'recognizes the Palestinian genocide,' announces his investments and disinvales of companies with direct or indirect ties with Israel.
It said: “These resolutions were the product of a meaningful debate of the Senate and represent a genuine attempt to keep Israel responsible for clear violations of international law.”
It added that the university's response to the resolutions has been completely insufficient and negative for the Senate, the collective voice of the student body. '
Before he attended Tufts, Ozturk graduated with a master's degree in the Development Psychology program at the Teachers College at Columbia University in New York, according to an Alumni Spotlight article in 2021.
Her focus was children's media. She was also a Fulbright scientist from 2018 in Columbia.
The detention of Ozturk comes after President Trump had signed an order on January 29 that a performance against anti -Semitism, including university campuses.
The order had said that his administration would pursue American policy to 'remove' extraterrestrial beings that would enter into 'illegitimate anti -Semitic intimidation and violence'.
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