"The United States government must restore Rumeysa Ozturk's student visa record, a federal court has ruled, months after the Tufts student was released from immigration detention where she was being held for speaking out against Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. United States District Judge Denise Casper delivered an interim ruling on Monday that US President Donald Trump's administration must restore Ozturk's name to a database of foreign students administered by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), known as SEVIS."
"After eight long months, that record will now finally be restored, she said. Going through this brutality, which began with my unlawful arrest and 45 days of detention at a shameful for-profit ICE prison in Louisiana, I feel more connected to everyone whose educational rights are being denied especially in Gaza, Ozturk added, noting that countless scholars have been murdered and every university has been intentionally destroyed, in the Palestinian enclave."
A federal court ordered the United States government to restore Rumeysa Ozturk's student visa record in the SEVIS database, reversing a prior cancellation that led to her detention. United States District Judge Denise Casper issued an interim ruling requiring the Trump administration to reinstate Ozturk's name, which her lawyers say will allow her to work and participate in research related to her doctoral studies in childhood development and the media at Tufts. Ozturk said her record was unlawfully cancelled after she co-wrote an op-ed advocating equal dignity and humanity, and she described unlawful arrest and 45 days in a for-profit ICE prison. Ozturk came from Turkiye as a Fulbright scholar and had her visa revoked on March 25 amid a broader administration crackdown on students protesting Israel's war on Gaza, while universities were already cracking down on campus protests.
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