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Chuck DarwinA delegation of five congressional Democrats traveled to Louisiana on Tuesday to visit <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mahmoud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mahmoud</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Khalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Khalil</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/R%C3%BCmeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rümeysa</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Öztürk</a> in the immigration prisons they’re being held in and to demand their release.The group of lawmakers, led by Rep. Troy <a href="https://c.im/tags/Carter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Carter</a> (Louisiana), is the first from Congress to visit either Khalil or Öztürk since they were abducted by immigration agents last month and flown from their homes in New York and Massachusetts, respectively, to Louisiana. The group also included Sen. Ed #<a href="https://c.im/tags/Markey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Markey</a> (Massachusetts) and Representatives Jim <a href="https://c.im/tags/McGovern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#McGovern</a> (Massachusetts), Ayanna <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pressley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pressley</a> (Massachusetts), and Bennie <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thompson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thompson</a> (Mississippi). <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-travel-to-louisiana-ice-prisons-to-demand-release-of-khalil-ozturk/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-travel-to-louisiana-ice-prisons-to-demand-release-of-khalil-ozturk/</a>

Devin UlibarriWatching Democracy Now in order to keep my sanity. <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2025/04/07" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2025/04/07</a>I love these people!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemocracyNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DemocracyNow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HandsOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HandsOff</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HandsOff2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HandsOff2025</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Protest</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/R%C3%BCmeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rümeysa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rumeysaozturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rumeysaozturk</a>

Chuck DarwinA Turkish doctoral student who was grabbed off the street by plain-clothes federal agents -- in apparent retaliation for her op-ed criticizing Israel -- says her arrest and ongoing detention won’t stop her from speaking out. Tufts University’s PhD student <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rumeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rumeysa</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ozturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ozturk</a> — among several international students targeted for removal from the country for their Palestinian advocacy — remains in detention in a Louisiana facility while her lawyers argue in court for her release. She has not been accused of a crime, and the government’s only apparent evidence against her is an op-ed in a student newspaper.Attempts from Donald Trump’s administration to keep her in custody “will not deter me from my commitment to advocate for the rights of youth and children,” she said in a statement through her attorney on Thursday.Last year, Ozturk co-authored an op-ed in The Tufts Daily newspaper calling on the university to divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel in an effort to hold Israel accountable “for clear violations of international law.” “Credible accusations against Israel include accounts of deliberate starvation and indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians and plausible genocide,” says the op-ed, which was written with three other students and endorsed by 32 others.Ozturk is working towards her doctorate at the Eliot-Pearson Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She received her master’s degree in developmental psychology from Teachers College at Columbia University, where she was a Fulbright scholar <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-ice-court-hearing-b2727114.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-ice-court-hearing-b2727114.html</a>

Devin Ulibarri"I’ve known Rümeysa Öztürk for more than a decade""Her detention is a betrayal of American values"<a href="https://bostonglobe.com/2025/04/02/opinion/tufts-grad-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bostonglobe.com/2025/04/02/opinion/tufts-grad-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk/</a><a href="https://archive.ph/uv3n1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/uv3n1</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rumeysaozturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rumeysaozturk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rumeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rumeysa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rumeysa_Ozturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rumeysa_Ozturk</a>

Devin Ulibarri"By most accounts, Ozturk was not a prominent activist on campus, which has prompted questions as to why she was arrested. Her most significant foray into politics appears to be a jointly written March 2024 op-ed in the student newspaper that urged the university to engage with a student-led push for Tufts to divest from Israel. But the editorial was enough for Ozturk to be highlighted by Canary Mission [...]"<a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-canary-mission.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-canary-mission.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/R%C3%BCmeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rümeysa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SomervilleMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SomervilleMA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a>

Andreas HallerThe abduction of students in the USA is super scary. Free <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/rumeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rumeysa</a> and <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/mahmoud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mahmoud</a>!

Chuck DarwinA federal judge in Massachusetts ordered on Friday ✅barred the deportation of a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, who voiced support for Palestinians in Israel's war in Gaza and was detained by U.S. immigration officials this week.<a href="https://c.im/tags/Rumeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rumeysa</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ozturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ozturk</a>, 30, was taken into custody by U.S. immigration authorities near her Massachusetts home on Tuesday, according to a video showing the arrest by masked federal agents. U.S. officials revoked her visa.Her lawyer soon after sued to secure her release, and on Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union joined her legal defense team, filing a revised lawsuit, opens new tab saying her detention violates her rights to free speech and due process.Despite a Tuesday night order requiring the PhD student and Fulbright Scholar to not be moved out of Massachusetts without 48 hours' notice, she is now in Louisiana.⭐️In Friday's order, opens new tab, U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston said that to provide time to resolve whether her court retained jurisdiction over the case, she was barring Ozturk's deportation temporarily. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-halts-deportation-turkish-student-tufts-2025-03-29/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-halts-deportation-turkish-student-tufts-2025-03-29/</a>

Catherine Schmidt<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Rumeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rumeysa</a> Ozturk <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/alt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#alt</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RuleofLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RuleofLaw</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#columbia</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#universities</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/antsemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antsemitism</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/arrests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#arrests</a> Heather Cox Richardson Black Shirt Arrest Free Speech Univerities Bow Down 3/27/25

AsakiyumeProud of my sister, who wrote this op-ed for the Tufts Daily, and the members of the class of '89 who <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/cosigned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cosigned</a>. <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/R%C3%BCmeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rümeysa</a> Öztürk <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/rumeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rumeysa</a> <a href="https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025/03/op-ed-a-letter-in-defense-of-academic-freedom-human-rights-and-the-first-amendment" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025/03/op-ed-a-letter-in-defense-of-academic-freedom-human-rights-and-the-first-amendment</a>

Crystal Huff (they/them)I'm not sure if I'm up for live-tooting it, but if anyone else wants to listen, the <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/SomervilleMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SomervilleMA</a> city council meeting has started, and we are totes talking about ICE kidnapping <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/Rumeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rumeysa</a>. You might hear me speak later on tonight, if you stay on long enough. (This is gonna be a long night.)<a href="https://somervillema.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1278310&GUID=1893EBAF-540F-4432-BC59-6309A9A571B0&Options=info|notes|&Search=" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://somervillema.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1278310&GUID=1893EBAF-540F-4432-BC59-6309A9A571B0&Options=info|notes|&Search=</a><a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/SomerPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SomerPoli</a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/MAPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MAPoli</a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://mas.wrong.tools/tags/Tufts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tufts</a>

Devin UlibarriFolks in Somerville, MA. I hope to see you at City Hall soon.<a href="https://www.cambridgeday.com/2025/03/27/protests-are-planned-in-cambridge-and-somerville-for-a-second-day-after-taking-of-tufts-grad-student/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cambridgeday.com/2025/03/27/protests-are-planned-in-cambridge-and-somerville-for-a-second-day-after-taking-of-tufts-grad-student/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SomervilleMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SomervilleMA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Somerville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Somerville</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/R%C3%BCmeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rümeysa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mahmoudkhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mahmoudkhalil</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rumeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rumeysa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/firstamendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#firstamendment</a>

McDonald_69US immigration Gestapo arrest Turkish student amid crackdownA Turkish student attending Tufts University was arrested by US immigration officials in Massachusetts and is being held in detention in Louisiana.Rumeysa Ozturk was detained on Tuesday outside Boston, as she was walking to an Iftar meal to celebrate Ramadan. Video shows masked, plain-clothes officers handcuffing and leading her to an unmarked car.<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrn57340xlo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrn57340xlo</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Turkey</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RumeysaOzturk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/R%C3%BCmeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rümeysa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ramadan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ramadan</a>

Lyla MehtaThe US is descending into an authoritarian fascist dictatorship. Terrifying for all (foreign) students and their basic rights. Today its students; tomorrow it will be you. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Rumeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rumeysa</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Ozturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ozturk</a>

Devin UlibarriThis is the article that the current US admin apparently doesn't want us to see: <a href="https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/R%C3%BCmeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rümeysa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rumeysaozturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rumeysaozturk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/firstamendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#firstamendment</a>

Devin UlibarriI live in Somerville, MA, where PhD student Rumeysa was taken from Tufts University. After work, I attended the protest at Powder House Square for as long as I could. Here are my photos. In the evening, I need to take care of my son, so this little bit of citizens' journalism is the best I can do.(Update: I removed some photos for a legitimate request.)<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tufts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tufts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rumeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rumeysa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Somerville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Somerville</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/R%C3%BCmeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rümeysa</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://c.im/tags/Rumeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rumeysa</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ozturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ozturk</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CanaryMission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CanaryMission</a>A different angle showing the <a href="https://c.im/tags/kidnapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kidnapping</a> of Runeysa Ozturk by U.S. secret police in Massachusetts.(via Daniel Boguslaw on Twitter) <a href="https://x.com/DRBoguslaw/status/1904933137328570859" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://x.com/DRBoguslaw/status/1904933137328570859</a>

Chuck DarwinThe Trump administration has detained a Tufts University graduate student exactly one year after she coauthored a plea for "the equal dignity and humanity of all people," including Palestinians.<a href="https://c.im/tags/Rumeysa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rumeysa</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ozturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ozturk</a>, a native of Turkey, 💥was "ambushed" late Tuesday outside her apartment, according to a statement that her attorney provided to The Boston Globe. ⚠️Neighbors had seen agents in unmarked cars monitoring her apartment for two days prior to the arrest, the outlet reported.Her arrest comes after the pro-Israel group <a href="https://c.im/tags/CanaryMission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CanaryMission</a> flagged Ozturk for having "engaged in anti-Israel activism in March 2024." That activism, according to the group, consisted entirely of co-authoring an op-ed in The Tufts Daily, a student newspaper, in which she and three other graduate students called on the school to "acknowledge the Palestinian genocide" and divest from companies with ties to Israel, as called for in resolutions passed by the student Senate."We, as graduate students, affirm the equal dignity and humanity of all people," the students wrote in the article, published March 26, 2024.Tufts University President Sunil Kumar acknowledged Ozturk's arrest in a Tuesday night statement that identified her only as an "international graduate student.""From what we've been told subsequently, the student's visa has been terminated, and we seek to confirm whether that information is true," Kumar said.Mahsa Khanbabai, Ozturk's attorney, told Salon that her client has a valid F-1 student visa and was "heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast" when she was detained by DHS agents outside her home."We are unaware of her whereabouts and have not been able to contact her. No charges have been filed against [her] that we are aware of," Khanbabai said in a statement.In a statement to Salon, a Trump administration spokesperson asserted, without providing evidence, that "DHS and ICE investigations found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas." The spokesperson did not suggest Ozturk had committed any crime, and confirmed that she had permission to be in the U.S. as a foreign student, but said that a "visa is a privilege not a right.""Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated," the spokesperson said. "This is commonsense security.”As of Wednesday morning, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee database identified Ozturk as being "In ICE Custody." It did not list a location.<a href="https://www.salon.com/2025/03/26/dhs-detains-grad-student-advocated-for-palestine-and-the-humanity-of-all-people/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.salon.com/2025/03/26/dhs-detains-grad-student-advocated-for-palestine-and-the-humanity-of-all-people/</a>

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