Judge to consider release on bail of Tufts student battling deportation order
Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested for political speech and is being held in Louisiana, where she says she’s suffered multiple asthma attacks
A federal judge in Vermont on Friday morning is set to consider the release on bail of a Tufts University student arrested in March for her political speech and now held in Louisiana in what she and her lawyers argue is a breach of her constitutional rights.
The judge had ordered Rümeysa Öztürk’s return to Vermont, where she was briefly held after being grabbed on the street by masked immigration agents near Boston, for hearings. But the judge decided not to wait for her physical transportation and she was due to appear remotely at the hearing on Friday.
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