Captured on video last week, Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk was arrested and taken away by plainclothes officers, later to be identified as ICE officers, as she was headed to meet friends for a Ramadan break fast.
The Trump administration revoked Ozturk’s student visa and sent her to an ICE detention center in Louisiana for co-authoring an op-ed in the Tufts student newspaper, demanding that the administration acknowledge the Palestinian genocide and disclose and divest from companies that have investments in Israel.
Last week, Tufts students turned out in large numbers to protest the detention of their classmate as Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a chilling press conference, where he gloated about Ozturk’s detention.
Ozturk’s deportation has been halted by a federal judge in Boston, because of the way she was detained.