Washington – Rumya OzturbA Turkish doctoral candidate at the University of Tufts was released from immigration custody on Friday, hours after a judge ordered that he was released on bail.
The United States District Judge, William Sessions, who presides over the case, said at the end of Friday’s bail audience that OzTurb raised “very substantial” and “very significant” claims that the first amendment and due process were violated were respected when the poses were violated were the revocation of the administration of the administration of the student visa in March.
“His continuous arrest cannot endure,” he said.
Ozturb was released by the government later on Friday afternoon, one of his lawyers, Sonya Levitova, confirmed to CBS News.
“The Government sent masked and civil agents to kidnap Rümeysa out of the street and lock her to write an opinion article. He has a political prisoner for six weeks. Now that he is free and can resume his studies and join Gnobet Tuftts, we tufts Tuftts Reindicatics Reindicate Rümeysas in total, Levitova in a statement.
OzTurb was a hero in an immigration center in Basile, Louisiana, where she was transferred after being stopped in Massachusetts. But the court said that he can now return home in Somerville, Massachusetts, without travel restrictions. The bond audience in its challenge to its confinement came after a Federal Court of Appeals ruled On Wednesday that the Trump Administration had until May 14 to comply with the order of a district court to transfer Ozturb to the immigration custody in Vermont.
Ozturb, who appeared remotely from Louisiana and testified before the court, was seen hugging his lawyer after Sessions issued his decision from the bank.
The Trump administration has said that the underlying justification to eliminate the OzTurb students visa was based on an opinion article that she authorized in the Tufts student newspaper last year the Israel War with Hamas. But Sessions said OzTurb “simply and purely” was arrested for “the expression he made or shared in the opinion article.”
“There has been no evidence that it has been introduced by the government other than the opinion article. I mean, it is literally the case,” said Sessions. “There is no evidence here about motivation, in the absence of the consultation of the opinion article.”
He told the court that he creates a “very significant and substantial statement that the opinion article, that is, the expression of the opinion of one normally protected by the first amendment formed the basic or basic arrest.”
“There is absolutely no evidence that she has participated in violence or advocated violence,” said Sessions. “He has no criminal record. He has done nothing more than essentially attend his university and expand his contacts within the community in such a solidarity way.”
Mike Rodman, A Spokesperson for Tufts University, Said in A Statement that the School is “pleased that the Court has approved rumeysa’s request to be release on dance, and we look forward to welcoming herck to campus tum sumu Co-authored op-ed or March 26, 2024, in the Tufts Daily Student Newspaper Violated Eithher The University Gatherings, Protests, and demonstration policy or its declaration on freedom of expression.
In addition to Ozturb’s auditory testimony, his lawyers also interrogated his doctor, his advisor in the doctoral program in Tuftts and an official with a Burlington organization, Vermont, who offered previous services to OzTurb if it is released. The government did not present any witnesses to provide testimony.
Duration of the procedures, and while his doctor testified the diagnosis of Asthma of OzTurb, a lawyer who appeared with her in Louisiana said that OzTurb suffered an asthma attack, and was told for 10 minutes.
One of Ozturb’s lawyers said he would face “significant health risks” if he remained in arrest and urged the sessions to immediately grant their bond.
Allowing him to remain in custody shows that “he can be arrested thousands of miles from his home for more than six weeks to write a news article,” his lawyer told the court.
Ozturb alleges that his detention violates his first and fifth amendment rights. She is among several hundred international students attending American universities who have He had revoked his student visas After they were accused of criticizing Israel or participating in pro-palestinian protests on their campus.
Ozturb’s lawyers said an immigration judge Denied bond For the Turkish national duration last month after asking an immigration judge to release her as her immigration case is processed. His lawyers said the National Security Department presented a document to support its opposition to Ozturb’s request: a memorandum of the State Department of a paragraph that revoked its student’s visa.
The immigration judge, said the lawyers of OzTurb, denied the bond based on the “unnecessable conclusion” that she was “a risk of escape and a danger to the community.”
OzTurb was tasks in custody by the masked and masked clothing immigration authorities outside his Somerville residence on March 25 after the student’s visa visa was revoked by the Trump administration. She was not informed about the revocation before being arrested, said her lawyers.
Courtesy of the Oz family through Reuters 
As justification for their judgment and detention, the Department of National Security and the application and control of Customs said that OzTurb “had been involved in associations that can under the foreign policy of the United States through the creation of a hostile environment that organizes terrorism that organizes students and indicated to students and indicated to students and indicates to students” Jewish students “and Jewish students and Jewish students” Jewish students “Jewish students” Jewish students “Jewish students and Jewish students and Jewish students The Court Court.
Ozturk había sido coautor de un artículo de opinión que se publicó en el periódico estudiantil de los Tuftts el año pasado que criticó a la escuela por su desestimación de varias resoluciones adoptadas por el Senado de estudiantes de pregrado como “sincero para el Hold Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Israel Isra. “The opinion article did not mention Hamas.
The president of TUFTS, Sunil Kumar, presented a statement Defend Ozturb And supporting its motion regarding its launch, writing that the university “has no information to support accusations that it was involved in activities in TUFTS that justify their judgment and detention.”
After OzTurb was in custody, she was transferred to New Hampshire and then Vermont, where they kept it during the night before passing a plane to Louisiana. The 30 -year -old student has been arrested at an immigration center in Basile since the end of March.
In Presentation of the OzTurbHe said he has suffered multiple serious asthma attacks in ice arrest and has received a limited doctor at the Louisian detention center. She said she is one of the 24 people in a detention cell that has a sign that indicates that the room has a capacity for 14.
Duration of Friday’s bail audience, OzTurb told the Court that he has suffered 12 asthma attacks since he was arrested, that they have become “longer and more difficult to stop.” Four of them occurred since OzTurb revealed his story before the Court in a statement last week, he said. There are “constant triggers” that can bring an attack, including the conditions of the room in the Louisiana facilities, limited access to the outdoors and the stress of their confinement, said Ozturb.
“It is affecting me in a very negative way, along with other women who live here, without accessing sufficient medical care and medications,” he said.
If it is released while the case is judged, Tufts will provide OzTurb living, he said. Ozturb can continue working to complete his doctorate if he leaves it without stopping, he told the court.
The whereabouts of OzTurb in the hours after the intention of tasks began a battle on where its habeas request must be presented and if the Federal District courts even the authority to consider the challenge. While initially appeared at the Court in Massachusetts, a judge there transferred his case to Vermont, since OzTurb was in the state at the time his lawyers presented his habeas request.
The Massachusetts judge who was assigned the OzTurck petition that sought liberation had quickly issued an order that prohibits the government from transferring it outside the State. But by then, OzTurb was in Vermont and hours later he was transferred to Louisiana.
Referring to this initial order, the sessions called him an “extraordinary situation” in which a federal judge ordered the government not to get OzTurb from Massachusetts, and then did not inform the court that it was in a different location.
The Department of Justice had argued that the case should proceed in Louisiana, since it is where Ozturb was confined. They had sought, without success, to have their challenge to their discarded arrest.
Sessions, who sits in the Federal District Court in Vermont, Last last month That OzTurb had to be transferred from Louisiana to the custody of ice in Vermont. Separated from his bail hearing, the judge will weigh the merits of Ozturb’s challenge to his confinement on May 22.
The Trump administration He appealed that decision And he asked the United States Court of Appeals for the second circuit to block it. But the panel of three judges rejected the request and said that federal immigration authorities had to transfer Ozturb to Vermont, since the sessions ordered them to do.
“Allowing the transfer of OzTurb will provide access to legal and medical services, will address the conditions on the conditions of its confinement and accelerate the resolution of this matter, all of which are required, as the court said below, Judgon,” Judgon, “Nathan said in his unanimous opinion.” In Stake, it is also the ability of OzTurb in the subscription state instead of update, “instead,”.