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The Guardian - US
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Sam Levine and agencies

Court orders detained Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk returned to Vermont

a woman wearing glasses and a hijab smiles while sitting down at a table and holding her head in her right hand
Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University in Somerville, Massachusetts, poses in an undated photograph provided by her family and obtained by Reuters on 29 March 2025. Photograph: Courtesy of the Ozturk family/Reuters

A federal appeals court on Wednesday granted a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England for hearings to determine whether her rights were violated.

A judicial panel of the New York-based US second circuit court of appeals ruled in the case of Rümeysa Öztürk after lawyers representing her and the US justice department presented arguments at a hearing on Tuesday.

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