A federal judge in Vermont ordered the Trump government to release Rumeysa Ozturk, a student of Tufts University, whose sudden arrest led to a public protest in March.
Mrs. Ozturk, a former Fulbright -scholar, has been in detention since 25 March, when she was surrounded by immigration agents in masks and ordinary Clothers outside her house in Somerville, Mass. The officers traded and pressed her in an unmarked car, and then drove through New Hampshire to Vermont, where she was put a plane to Louisiana.
When looking for her release, her lawyers accused the government to hold her in unconstitutional retribution for protected speech. The most important evidence against her seems to be an essay that is critical about Israel that she Helped to write Last year in a student newspaper from Tufts student.
Video images of the detention of Mrs. Ozturk became viral, which led to public indignation of her treatment by critics who say that the government abuses the immigration system to deport international students.
Mrs. Ozturk spent six weeks in detention in Louisiana and has endured unsanitary conditions that have always caused serious asthma attacks, said her lawyers in judicial documents.
Earlier this week, a Federal Court of Appeal ordered that it would be transferred to Vermont next week to attend a bail hearing. But the judge in her case, William K. Sessions, decided to keep the hearing with Mrs. Ozturk still in Louisiana and ordered her release.
This is a developing story. Come back for updates.
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