cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29744861
Sam Levine and agencies
Wed 7 May 2025 12.35 EDT"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."
As an update to this, they now have fully released her following a judge ordering her immediate release! Here she is speaking to supporters
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/bail-hearing-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-detained-in-louisiana/3708999/