A Tufts University student from Turkey was released from a Louisiana immigration detention center Friday, more than six weeks after she was arrested in a Boston suburb.

She was moved to a detention center in Louisiana (AP) “Rumeysa Ozturk never should have been arrested and detained, period,” her legal team said in a Tuesday statement to The Independent.

Rumeysa Ozturk was taken into custody on March 25 after her student visa was revoked by the Trump administration.

Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University student detained ... A judge in Vermont ordered Ozturk’s release from a detention facility in Louisiana Friday, and many of her neighbors in Somerville ...

Ozturk, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and taupe hijab, appeared virtually for her bail hearing on Friday from inside an all-white room at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center – roughly 1,700 ...

Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University student from Turkey who was pulled off a street by federal agents in Somerville, Massachusetts and spent six weeks in a detention center in Louisiana ...

The Democrat delegation, led by Rep. Troy Carter of Louisiana traveled to Jena, where Khalil is being held, and then two hours south to Basile, where Ozturk is detained. The group included Reps.

WASHINGTON – A group of congressional Democrats traveled to Louisiana on April 23 to visit Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities where Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk have ...

Immigration authorities detained Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national in the US on a student visa, on March 25 in Somerville. Update: Read about the Louisiana prison where ...

Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk, for now, will remain in a detention center in Louisiana where she has been locked up for more than 100 days. A panel of federal appeals court ...