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Ilya Somin

Court Orders Release of Tufts Foreign Student Detained For Her Speech

Rumeysa Ozturk
Tufts Ph. D. student Rumeysa Ozturk. (Reuters)

 

Yesterday, federal District Judge William K. Sessions, III, of the District of Vermont ordered the immediate release of Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, whom ICE had detained and slated for deportation based on her anti-Israel speech. There does not appear to be a written decision in the case. But here is a summary of  the background of the case, and what the judge said orally:

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