Tufts student detained by U.S. immigration for op-ed on Gaza is released

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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University student from Turkey who was held for over six weeks in an immigration detention centre in Louisiana after co-writing an opinion piece criticizing her school’s response to Israel’s war in Gaza, was released from custody on Friday after a federal judge granted her bail.

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