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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Student targeted by masked immigration officials can’t be deported without order

A University doctoral student who was detained by masked officials this week can’t be deported to Turkey without a court order, a federal judge said on Friday.

Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by masked immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville on Tuesday.

Ozturk was one of four students who wrote an op-ed in The Tufts Daily last year that criticized the university’s response to student demands that Tufts “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide,” disclose its investments and divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel.

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