Student of tufts detained taken from the Massachusetts before the judge ordered him to stay there, said the government

Boston (AP) – A TUFTS University doctorate student From Turkey who was arrested by the immigration authorities had been transferred to Vermont as a federal judge ordered the authorities to keep it in Massachusetts, lawyers for the US government said.

Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by immigration officials As she walked along a street In the suburbs of Boston de Somerville on March 25. She was put on a plane the next day and moved to an immigration and customs detention center Basile, in Louisiana.

Friday, a federal judge of Boston, responding to a petition filed by the lawyers of Ozturk, said Ozturk cannot be deleted from the United States “to the new ordinance of this court”.

But on Tuesday, lawyers from the Ministry of Justice argued that the judge did not compete in the Ozturk affair. They said that Ozturk’s lawyers had to deposit her petition in the jurisdiction where she was confined, The Boston Globe reported. They declared that the case should be rejected or transferred to Louisiana and that any dispute belonged to the immigration court.

Ozturk lawyers have said that his detention violates his constitutional rights, including freedom of expression and regular procedure. He asked the judge to order that she immediately returned to Massachusetts and released from the guard.

Ozturk support gatherings took place on Tuesday in Boston and Tufts University.

Ozturk is among Several people with links with American universities WHO assisted by demonstrations Or publicly expressed support to the Palestinians During the war in Gaza and which recently revoked visas or were prevented from entering the United States

A spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Security confirmed the end of the Ozturk visa last week, saying that the surveys had revealed that Oztruk was delivered to Hamas supporting activities, a terrorist group designated by the United States. The ministry did not provide proof of this support.

“We gave you a visa to come and study and obtain a diploma, not to become a social activist, to tear our university campuses,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week when he was interviewed on Ozturk. During a stop in Guyana.

Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, 2023, in an attack that killed some 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and in which around 250 hostages were seized. Israel’s reprisal offensive killed more than 50,000 people, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, and destroys a large part of the enclave.

Ozturk was one of the four students who wrote an editorial in the daily newspaper of the tufts last year who criticized the university’s response to students’ requirements that Tofts “recognize the Palestinian genocide”, discloses its investments and unfold companies with direct or indirect links with Israel.

Friends said Ozturk was not otherwise involved in demonstrations against Israel.