A graduated Tufts -graduated by ICE, was thrown a potential lifeline after a federal judge set up to temporarily connect her deportation.
PHD -Student and Fulbright scientist Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was beaten on Tuesday by masked immigration agents close to her house in Massachusetts, as shown in dramatic surveillance images.
The US Department of Interior Security has accused Ozturk, without providing evidence, of 'doing business activities to support Hamas', a Palestinian group that is recognized by the US government as a 'foreign terrorist organization'.
Officials have withdrawn the Ozturk visa and moved her to Louisiana – despite an order in which agents did not have to get her out of Massachusetts without 48 hours.
The American district judge Denise Casper in Boston dramatically intervened in the case on Friday by temporarily breaking the deportation of the Turkish National to give time to resolve whether its court has retained jurisdiction about the case.
She ordered the Trump government to respond to Ozturk's complaint on Tuesday.
Mahsa Khanbabai, a lawyer for Ozturk, called the decision “a first step in releasing Rumeysa and back to Boston so that she can continue her studies.”
The DHS had no immediate comments.
Graduated Tufts Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was thrown a potential lifeline after a federal judge set up to temporarily break its deportation by ICE immigration officials
Images of her taken into a group of six ordinary ice officers who swarm Ozturk while she walked to a meal with friends on Tuesday
The American district judge Denise Casper (photo) dramatically intervened in the case on Friday by temporarily limiting the deportation of Ozturk to give time to solve jurisdiction problems
Oncu Keceli, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, said that the efforts to secure its release were continued, the addition of consular and legal support was offered by Turkish diplomatic missions in the US
'Our Houston Consul General visited our citizen in the center where she will be held in Louisiana on 28 March. The requests and demands of our citizens have been forwarded to local authorities and her lawyer, “said Keceli in a position about X.
The arrest of Ozturk came a year after she was a co-author of an opinion piece in the student newspaper of Tufts and criticized the university's response to students to deny companies with ties with Israel and 'the Palestinian genocide'.
The OP-ED added that the university's response to the resolutions was completely insufficient and negative for the Senate, the collective voice of the student body. '
On Thursday, the American State Secretary Marco Rubio announced that the Ozturk visa had been withdrawn while quoting it while he gave a warning to other students who wanted to perform similar activism.
Ozturk was the target of ICE on an on-ed piece she was co-author of the student Outlet The Tufts Daily, where she criticized the university's response to Israel's bombing of Gaza
Rubio said he had no problem holding student activists and trying to deport the activists of students, even if they have not violated the law, with the argument that they have lied to their visa applications by supporting Hamas.
“If you lie against us and get a visa and then enter the United States, and participate in that visa in that kind of activities, we will take away your visa,” he said.
When asked how many student visa had been withdrawn, he said: 'It can be more than 300 at the moment. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these crazy people, I take their visa away. '
The arrest images of Ozturk caused a recoil this week when visual material showed that she was surrounded by six undercover ice officers, who fascinated her and took her in a vehicle while walking to a meal with friends.
She was then brought to the Central Louisiana Ice Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana while the government is fighting to deport her, the same facility where co -student mahmoud Khalil and Badar Khan Suri were also transferred.
Protests broke out on the Tufts campus in response to Ozturk Detainment
A lawyer for Ozturk has sued her release, and on Friday the American Civil Liberties Union joined its legal defense team, who signs up a revised lawsuit, opens a new tab and says that her detention violates its rights on free speech and the right process.
President Donald Trump has promised to deport foreign Pro-Palestinian protesters and has accused them of supporting Hamas, to be anti-Semitic and to make obstacles to foreign policy.
Protesters, including some Jewish groups, say that the Trump government combines their criticism of Israel's attack on Gaza and their advocacy for Palestinian rights with anti -Semitism and support for Hamas.
