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Tufts University is calling for grad student Rumeysa Ozturk to be “released without delay,” as the international student’s legal team continues to fight for her release after ICE agents grabbed her of...
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Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was taken by immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of Somerville on March 25.
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Ozturk's lawyers have said that her detention violates her constitutional rights, including free speech and due process.

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