Pro-Palestine Rumeysa Ozturk student was arrested on Tuesday by the US Massachusetts immigration.
A Federal Massachusetts judge temporarily prohibited the expulsion of a Turkish doctoral student at Toft University, who expressed his support for the Palestinians in the War of Israel in Gaza and was detained by US immigration officials.
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was forcibly placed by masked federal agents in broad daylight near her home in Massachusetts on Tuesday. Immigration officials also revoked his visa.
Friday, judge of the American district court Denise Casper gave the government until Tuesday evening to respond to a updated complaint filed by Ozturk lawyers.
“To allow the resolution of his jurisdiction by the court to decide the request, Ozturk will not be removed from the United States until the new ordinance of this Court,” wrote the judge.
Ozturk’s arrest occurred a year after having co-wrote an opinion article in the student newspaper of tofts criticizing the university’s response to student calls to divest companies related to Israel and to “recognize the Palestinian genocide”.
Friends said Ozturk was not otherwise involved in pro-Palestine demonstrations against Israel.
A lawyer shortly after continued to ensure his release, and Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union joined his legal defense team, depositing a revised legal action claiming that his detention violates his rights to freedom of expression and regular procedure.
On Saturday, oncu Keceli, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkiye, said that efforts to guarantee the release of Ozturk continued, the addition of consular and legal support was provided by Turkish diplomatic missions in the United States.
“Our consul general of Houston visited our citizen in the center where she is owned in Louisiana on March 28. The requests and requests of our citizens were transmitted to local authorities and his lawyer,” said Keceli in a position on X.
US President Donald Trump is committed to expelling foreign pro-Palestinian demonstrators and accused them, without providing evidence, of supporting Hamas, of being anti-Semitic and posing obstacles to foreign policy.
The demonstrators, including certain Jewish groups, say that the Trump administration confuses their criticism of the assault of Israel against Gaza and their plea for Palestinian rights with anti -Semitism and the support of Hamas.
Several students and demonstrators saw their visas dismissed by the Trump administration, who says he may have revoked more than 300 visas.
