"They said the immigration judge concluded on January 29 that the US Department of Homeland Security had not met its burden of proving she was removable and terminated the proceedings against her. Ozturk, a PhD student studying children's relationship to social media, was arrested last March while walking down a street as the administration of US President Donald Trump began targeting foreign-born students and activists involved in pro-Palestinian advocacy."
"Video showed masked agents handcuffing her and putting her into an unmarked vehicle. The sole basis authorities provided for revoking her visa was an editorial she co-authored in Tufts' student newspaper a year earlier, criticising her university's response to Israel's genocidal war on Gaza. A petition to release her was first filed in federal court in Boston, where Tufts is located, and then moved to the city of Burlington in Vermont."
"In May of last year, a federal judge ordered her immediate release after finding she raised a substantial claim that her detention constituted unlawful retaliation in violation of her free speech rights. Ozturk, who spent 45 days in a detention centre in southern Louisiana, has been back on the Tufts campus since. The federal government appealed her release to the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals. The January 29 decision, however, ends those proceedings for now."
An immigration judge concluded on January 29 that the Department of Homeland Security had not met its burden to prove removability and terminated removal proceedings against Rumeysa Ozturk. Ozturk, a Turkish PhD student at Tufts studying children's relationship to social media, was arrested last March during a crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists. Video footage showed masked agents handcuffing her and placing her in an unmarked vehicle. Authorities based visa revocation solely on an editorial she co-authored criticizing Tufts' response to Israel's war on Gaza. A federal judge ordered her release in May, finding her detention likely unlawful retaliation; she spent 45 days in detention and has returned to campus.
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