On Monday, U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III transferred a motion to restore Tufts graduate student Rümeysa ...

A federal judge in Vermont on Friday, May 9, 2025, released Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Tufts University student detained in a Louisiana immigration center more than six weeks after she was arrested ...

Steve Roberts Andrews McMeel Syndicate Rumeysa Ozturk is a 30-year-old graduate student at Tufts University and a native of Turkey who wears a traditional Muslim headscarf. Six weeks ago, she was ...

A still from surveillance video showing Tufts University Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk being taken into custody in Somerville, Massachusetts.

SOMERVILLE, MASS. (WHDH) - Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk opened up about her arrest by Homeland Security Agents and the 45 days she spent in a Louisiana detention center.

Federal investigators normally tasked with uncovering narcotic and financial crimes were told to prioritize the arrest of a university student with no criminal record, and not tell her that her ...

Young, a Ronald Reagan appointee, spent the past two weeks presiding over the bench trial, in which groups including the American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies ...

Patrick Cunningham, the agent who oversaw the arrest of Öztürk in March, also told the court that he had no knowledge of any criminal offense she had committed.

A Boston University earth and environment professor began a hunger strike Tuesday afternoon after signage reading “Free Rumeysa” was removed from his office window for the second time. Nathan Philips, ...

Homeland Security agent says he was told not to inform Rümeysa Öztürk her visa was revoked when she was arrested ...