Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk remains in ICE detention after bond denial
Published: Apr. 17, 2025, 9:48 a.m.
By Irene Rotondo | IRotondo@masslive.com
A federal immigration judge denied bond on Wednesday for Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University student taken off the streets of Somerville by federal immigration agents in March.
Özturk, a 30-year-old Turkish national, has been in federal custody since March 25 when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in plainclothes arrested her on the street in Somerville and whisked her to New Hampshire, then Vermont.
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Özturk was ultimately brought to a Louisiana detention center, where she has since been held as one of two dozen women in a 14-person cell and suffered several asthma attacks, according to her own accounts described in court filings.
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