SOMERVILLE, MASS. (WHDH) - Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts graduate student in ICE detention, was denied bond in an immigration court Wednesday.
Ozturk was arrested by ICE agents in Somerville last month.
Her attorney says the government’s entire case is based on a one-paragraph memo from the State Department to ICE that points back to Ozturk’s op-ed, where she called for Tufts to divest from Israel over the war in Gaza.
Meanwhile, there was a new filing in her federal case. Her legal team is calling on a federal judge in Vermont to order her release or at least her return to Vermont by tomorrow citing immigration court developments and ongoing risks to her health.
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