'Her detention cannot stand': Judge orders release of student arrested by Trump admin

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'Her detention cannot stand': Judge orders release of student arrested by Trump admin

Travis Gettys
May 9, 2025 1:54PM ET

A federal judge has ordered the immediate release Turkish doctoral student who has been held at an immigration detention center for more than six weeks.

Tufts University scholar Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested by masked, plainclothes federal agents outside her Boston apartment in March and held since then as part of president Donald Trump's mass deportation program, but CBS News reported that an appeals court judge on Friday found that her First Amendment and due process rights had been violated.

"There is absolutely no evidence that she has engaged in violence or advocated violence," said U.S. District judge William Sessions. "She has no criminal record. She has done nothing other than essentially attend her university and expand her contacts within the community in such a supportive way."

"Her continued detention cannot stand," the judge added.

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