(Bloomberg) – A student of PhD at Tufts University, who was critical of the Gaza War, will be able to fight American deportation in the Federal court of Vermont than in Louisiana, where she has been held since last week.
The decision on Friday the district judge of the US Denise Casper in Boston means an early procedure for Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen and Fulbright Scholar, whose visa was canceled as a result of its open criticism of Israel and the support of the Palestinians.
Ozturk was pulled out of the street officers of ordinary pins in front of her Someville, Massachusetts, Home 25. March and quickly moved to Louisiana in what her lawyers claim to be a secret attempt to perceive in jurisdiction as friendly to Trump’s administration.
Ozturk tried to keep her case in Boston or alternatively move him to Vermont, where she was briefly held before transport to Louisiana. On Friday, the judge dismissed the government’s petition to dismiss the case and extended the earlier order and said that Ozturk could not be moved outside the US until the Federal Court of Vermont resolved her case.
The lawyer for a doctoral student of the third year urged the judge to maintain the legal struggle in Boston, near the place where Ozturk lives and studied. On Thursday, her lawyer accused immigration agents of “secretly condemning her and assured that no one knows where he is until he is in Louisiana.”
Casper previously ordered Ozturka to stay in Boston, but was already on his way to Louisiana. The lawyer of the Ministry of Justice stated that the matter was solved properly and claims that the case must be dealt with in a state where OZTURK takes place.
Ozturk was detained when she left her apartment outside the area to participate in the IFTar-Querk with a broken evening meal for Muslims during Ramadan-Podle Tufts in the intermediate center. The video of the incident was widely perceived after publication.
“Her research focuses on how young adults can use social media in a positive, prosocial way, and her faculty is described as a hard -working student devoted to her studies and the TUFTS community,” Tufts said in a statement in April 2. “The university has no information to support the accusation that it has been involved in TUFTS, which guarantees its arrest and detention.”
In his statement, Tufts confirmed that Ozturk co -coated in March 2024, calling on the university to “recognize the Palestinian genocide” and “sell away from direct or indirect ties to Israel”. Tufts said that this piece does not break any university policies.
The case is Ozturk v. Hyde, 25-CV-10695, US District Court, District of Massachusetts (Boston).
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