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Sam Levin

Tufts student detained by Ice may not be deported without court order, judge rules

Woman in hijab smiling and holding apple on a tree
Rümeysa Öztürk on an apple-picking trip in 2021. Photograph: AP

A Tufts University student who was detained by US immigration authorities this week, in an arrest that caused widespread outrage, cannot be deported without a court order, a US judge ordered on Friday.

Rümeysa Öztürk, 30, was detained by masked, plainclothes officers as she walked in a Boston-area suburb on Tuesday, an incident that was captured on surveillance footage that has since gone viral. Öztürk, who is being threatened with deportation to Turkey, is a Fulbright scholar and doctoral student in the US with a visa.

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