Ozturk appeared at her bail hearing remotely from Louisiana, describing her growing asthma attacks in detention and her desire to finish her doctorate degree ...

Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student at Tufts, has been held for about six weeks in Louisiana. She says conditions there ...

The Tufts University PhD student from Turkey was detained six weeks ago in Somerville by U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk has been released – following a federal judge’s order in Vermont - from a ...

Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts ... because, frankly, I don’t find that she poses any risk of flight,” ...

A federal judge on Friday ordered the immediate release of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University who ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A Palestinian student arrested as he was about to finalize his U.S. citizenship accused Columbia ...

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student, was ordered released by a federal judge in Vermont in the latest setback ...

Being detained for six weeks for writing an op-ed in your school newspaper is a constitutional horror story," said Monica Allard, an attorney for the ACLU of Vermont representing Ozturk.

The decision came early Friday afternoon. Öztürk was in a detention facility in Louisiana at the time of the ruling.