Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk ordered freed from detention, pending immigration proceedings

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/09/metro/rumeysa-ozturk-bail-hearing/

A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts PhD candidate whose sudden arrest by federal immigration agents made national news.

Öztürk has been held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana for more than six weeks after masked immigration authorities arrested her outside her apartment in Somerville. The only evidence the government has cited for her detention and deportation is an article she wrote for a student newspaper that was critical of Tufts’ stand on Israel’s actions in Gaza, what her supporters have called a violation of her rights to free speech and due process.

“These are very substantial claims of both due-process and First Amendment violations,” US District Judge William K. Sessions III said as he made his ruling at the end of a three-hour-long bail hearing on Friday in Vermont.

He added, “Her continued detention potentially chills the speech of the millions and millions of individuals in this country who were not citizens.”

[Attilatheblond]

1. Reasonable call, but not holding my breath the Fascist Administration complies

[Walleye]

2. Do they also have their own definition of "immediate"?