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Federal government appeals order to send Rümeysa Öztürk to Vermont
The Justice Department is fighting a judge's ruling that Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk must be transferred back to ...
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Judge rules Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk must be transferred to Vermont
In major milestone for detained students, Vermont judge rules that Tufts University student should be moved while a lawsuit ...
Department of Justice appeals court decision to bring Tufts student detained by ICE back to Vermont
A federal judge ruled last week that Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, must be moved from Louisiana to Vermont no later than May 1 to have her case heard in the District of Vermont.
Federal judge in VT weighs jurisdiction in Rumeysa Ozturk case. What happened in court
On Thursday, Öztürk's lawyers filed a petition calling for her release. Lawyers for federal officials named in the case in ...
Judge in Vermont considers whether he has jurisdiction of detained Tufts University student’s case
A federal judge in Vermont who's considering whether he has jurisdiction over the case of a Turkish Tufts University student ...
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Federal government appeals ruling ordering detained Tufts student’s return to Vermont
Judge William K. Sessions III, presiding in the case in federal court in Burlington, had ruled Friday that Rümeysa Öztürk be transferred from a federal immigration detention center in Louisiana to a ...
Sen. Ed Markey and other lawmakers visit Rumeysa Ozturk at Louisiana detention facility
Sen. Ed Markey and U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Jim McGovern met with Rumeysa Ozturk at a Louisiana detention facility on ...
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US judge rules Rumeysa Ozturk must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont
Court says detained pro-Palestine student has shown ‘significant evidence’ violations to her constitutional rights.
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'Not ordinary immigration enforcement': Tufts grad student's lawyers speak out in Vermont
Lawyers for Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University graduate student, addressed supporters after a hearing about her ongoing detention by immigration officials.
Opinion: The mechanics of kidnapping: How ICE is imprisoning Rumeysa Ozturk
For decades, ICE has exploited its decentralized network of detention centers to keep immigration prisoners away from their ...