A federal appeals court in New York Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to transfer Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student, from Louisiana to Vermont to continue her ...

NEW YORK – The Second Circuit Court of Appeals today denied the Trump administration’s attempt to further delay Rümeysa Öztürk’s transfer to Vermont. The appeals court ordered the government to comply ...

Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Updated at 6:49 p.m. BURLINGTON — A federal judge in Vermont on Friday ordered that Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish graduate student who has spent the past six weeks ...

Rümeysa Öztürk was released on Friday after 5 p.m., speaking briefly to supporters and press outside of the Basile, Louisiana, facility. “Thank you so much for all the support and love,” she said.

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student and Turkish national, was released from federal custody on Friday, hours after a judge in Vermont ordered the Trump administration to free her.

A federal appeals court panel Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s request to lift a judge’s order to physically transfer detained Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk from ...

Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk on Saturday arrived in her ... be argued at a May 22 proceeding in the District of Vermont. Her attorneys hope the judge “will ultimately ...

A federal judge in Vermont had, last month ... arrested and locked up for their political views. Every day that Rümeysa Öztürk remains in detention is a day too long,” Bhandari said.