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missmouse.bsky.social
HELL. YEAH! #RumeysaOzturk
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · May 9
So therefore the court finds that she does not pose danger to community or present risk of flight.

THE COURT ORDERS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE OZTURK FROM CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY.

"Ms. Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts."
May 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
womenwarriors.com
A little good news...

#usa #america #ice #rumeysaozturk @janecaro.bsky.social
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · May 9
Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.

📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background. Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress. Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.
May 10, 2025 at 6:15 AM
youranonriots.bsky.social
HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of protestors call for the release of #RumeysaOzturk in Somerville, MA. The Tufts grad student was abducted by #ICE last night after publishing an article that was critical of Israel and supportive of BDS. #AbolishICE #FreeRumeysaOzturk
March 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
mysticmashupindiv.bsky.social
Please come out to support Rumeysa Ozturk tomorrow, Tuesday, October 21, 8:30 AM at the JFK Federal Building in Boston. This is Rumeysa’s hearing to try to restore her right to work. #Tufts #RumeysaOzturk #indivisible #ICE
Justice for Rumeysa, Tuesday, October 21, 8:30 AM, JFK Federal Building in Boston. Rumeysa’s Hearing. Restore Rumeysa’s right to work.
October 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
memsomerville.bsky.social
#SomervilleMA: she's out!

#RumeysaOzturk
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · May 9
Per NBC News: Rumeysa Ozturk has been released!
May 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
floodzonecomics.bsky.social
Coming to a college near you

@floodzonecomics #floodzonecomics #mahmoudkhalil #rümeysaöztürk #2025 #ice
March 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
jfrejnyc.bsky.social
Couldn't be clearer that — just like #MahmoudKhalil & #RümeysaÖztürk — #MohsenMahdawi is persecuted for his political speech & identity.

DO NOT play "Good Palestinian/Bad Palestinian" or "Good Immigrant/Bad Immigrant" here. If you care about democracy, speak out without qualifiers. Raise hell. NOW.
April 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
miniaturewolf.bsky.social
#RumeysaOzturk #FreeRumeysaOzturk
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Mar 26
NEW—DHS claims, without citing proof, Rumeysa Ozturk "engaged in activities in support of Hamas."

Among "activity" Ozturk engaged in was co-writing an op-ed urging Tufts to heed student resolutions to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide & divest from companies tied to Israel.
DHS spokesperson: “Rumeysa Ozturk is a Turkish national and Tufts University graduate student, granted the privilege to be in this country on a visa. DHS and ICE investigations found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. A visa is a privilege not a right. Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated. This is commonsense security.”
March 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
ruthwatson.eurosky.social
Effective resistance to appalling abuses of human rights in America, and beyond.

Bravo #RumeysaOzturk
aclu.org ACLU @aclu.org · May 9
Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.

📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background. Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress. Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.
May 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
somayehtohidi.bsky.social
I saw the news about #RumeysaOzturk this morning and was terrified, as I’m about to visit Boston for a conference on a visa next week! Having been raised under an authoritarian government, I know all too well how they thrive on fear-mongering. We won’t be silenced! Free her and stop the genocide!
March 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
memsomerville.bsky.social
Hey #SomervilleMA this will interest you. #RumeysaOzturk
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Apr 2
NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk's latest filings include a strong set of declarations from a number of experienced immigration lawyers in MA, NH, VT, and ME who say the way Öztürk was rapidly shuttled out of state and then from place to place was highly unusual, illogical, and (by all appearances) unnecessary.
I have reviewed the Declaration of David T. Wesling. In my 16 years of practice, I have not seen or even heard of an ICE detainee arrested in Massachusetts being booked and repeatedly moved in the manner described in that declaration. I have never seen or even heard of an ICE detainee arrested in Massachusetts being moved to Methuen, Massachusetts, then Lebanon, New Hampshire, then St. Albans, Vermont, within a matter of hours. The conduct described in Mr. Wesling's declaration is, in short, highly irregular. Executed on April 2, 2025, in Boston, MA. Stefanie Fisher-Pinkert 13. I have reviewed the Declaration of David Wesling. The procedures described therein for Ms. Ozturk are not consistent with anything I have ever observed in my 17 years of immigration practice. I have never seen or even heard of an immigrant booked in 14 minutes. I have never seen a client transferred twice in the same day. The fastest transfer I recall seeing was 24 hours after initial placement. I do not recall ever seeing a client arrested in Massachusetts be detained in St. Albans, Vermont. I have never seen an F-1 revocation where the noncitizen was arrested and detained on the street, by masked men, with no prior notice that the visa had been revoked. To the best of my memory, in each of the F-1 revocations I have seen, the noncitizens' alleged actions leading to the visa revocation would (if true) have been clearly in violation of the terms of the visa (e.g., the immigrant was no longer attending the listed school, the immigrant had overstayed the visa). I have never before seen an F-1 visa revoked, and the student arrested without prior notice of the revocation, based on an op-ed published in a school newspaper. Executed on April 2, 2025, in Boston, MA. Heather Yountz 6. CCJ provides our clinic with daily data concerning, among other things, the number of civil immigration detainees housed in its facility. Paragraphs 7-11 below summarize voluminous writings that cannot be conveniently examined in court, in part because they contain personally identifying information concerning certain persons housed in CCJ. 7. On March 7, 2025, records indicated that approximately 27 civil immigration detainees were housed in Pod C3 at CCJ. Pod C3 is the female housing unit. 8. On March 7, 2025, records indicated that approximately 62 total female detainees, including civil immigration detainees, were housed at CCJ. 9. On March 25, 2025, records indicated that approximately 19 civil immigration detainees were housed in Pod C3 (the female housing unit) at CCJ. 10. On March 26, 2025, records indicated that approximately 18 civil immigration detainees were housed in Pod C3 (the female housing unit) at CCJ. 11. On March 26, 2025, records indicated that approximately 46 total female detainees, including civil immigration detainees, were housed at CCJ. 12. Based on my review of these records, and my extensive experience working with CCJ and detainees at CCJ over more than a decade, I conclude that there were at least 16 open beds to house additional female detainees at CCJ on March 25 & 26, 2025. 13. Throughout my years of experience working with the immigrant population in northern New England, I have never heard of an ICE detainee being arrested in Massachusetts and being transferred to Methuen, MA, Lebanon, NH, and then St. Albans, VT in a matter of hours. Executed on April 2, 2025, in Boston, MA. Anna R. Welch 6. The St. Albans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office serves as a subordinate office to the ICE Boston Field Office and is where ICE conducts Enforcement and Removal Operations including supervision. It is a small administrative office that has been staffed by visiting officers on secondment from southern districts for several years since marked attrition over 2020 and 2021. In my years of practice in Vermont, I have only ever seen or heard of people being detained at the St. Albans office upon initial arrest in Vermont. I have never previously seen or heard of people from other states being transferred into the St. Albans Office for detention. 7. Last year, ICE Boston Field Office and St. Albans Sub-Office leadership called a meeting with Vermont immigration legal services providers in Burlington, Vermont to introduce us to new management who would be permanently staffing the office. There, I had the chance to personally meet with Boston and St. Albans ICE leadership, solicit their practice and prosecutorial discretion priorities, exchange contact information to facilitate more efficient resolution of represented parties' immigration custody and removal proceedings. I understood from this engagement and have heard confirmed by numerous and pro bonos I supervise, that the St. Albans office is a small, simple administrative office not suitable for long-term custody and detention. 8. Moreover, in my seven years of practicing in Vermont and serving as a local expert on immigration matters, I have never once encountered the case of a detained person who is being transferred into Vermont for the purposes of continued ICE detention. I have only encountered individuals being held in Vermont who were initially detained in Vermont and being held temporarily on their way to longer term detention in nearby over-72-hour facilities. It is even more extraordinary for a person to be transferred into the St. Albans ICE office, which is a government office and not a det…
April 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM
truenorthhq.bsky.social
#kilmargarcia #mahmoudkhalil #rumeysaozturk #saytheirnames #bringthemhome #ICEraids #injustice
April 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
jenniesvoiceyes.bsky.social
#handsOFF IN #NYC April 5
Immense powerful crowd.
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#RumeysaOzturk
April 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
youranonriots.bsky.social
Pro-Palestinian Turkish Student ABDUCTED By ICE: "Looked Like a Kidnapping" #RumeysaOzturk #AbolishICE
PREMIERING NOW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_eA...
Pro-Palestinian Turkish Student ABDUCTED By ICE: "Looked Like a Kidnapping"
YouTube video by Status Coup News
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March 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
motherearth19309.bsky.social
#QatarsBitch #MarioMeléndez #KilmarAbregoGarcia #MahmoudKhalil #RümeysaÖztürk #ICE #DefundICE #ImpeachTrump #treason #electionfraud #insiderttrading #marketmanipulation #Signal #NATO #ICC #FireHegseth #FireGabbard #FireRatcliffe #FireBondi #FireNoem #puppykiller #ElSalvador #Corruption #Project2025
kevinstalder.bsky.social Kevin St. Alder @kevinstalder.bsky.social · Apr 24
My General Observations on Global Protests:
Increase in protests: There has been a notable global trend of increasing protest movements over the past decade.
Motivations: Protests are driven by a wide range of issues, including political grievances, economic inequality, corruption, human rights. 🧵
May 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
motherearth19309.bsky.social
#QatarsBitch #MarioMeléndez #KilmarAbregoGarcia #MahmoudKhalil #RümeysaÖztürk #DefundICE #ImpeachTrump #treason #electionfraud #TheBoss #Springsteen #TaylorSwift #marketmanipulation #Signal #NATO #ICC #FireHegseth #FireGabbard #FireRatcliffe #FireBondi #FireNoem #ElSalvador #Corruption #Project2025
democracydocket.com Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · May 22
President Trump is coming after Bruce Springsteen after the musician laid out 7 points on what he sees as the Trump administration’s worst abuses so far.

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May 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
memsomerville.bsky.social
Hey neighbors: some good news.

#SomervilleMA #RumeysaOzturk
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Feb 9
NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...
Dear Ms. Wolfe, Petitioner-Appellee Rümeysa Öztürk submits this Rule 28(j) letter to advise the Court that on January 29, 2026, the immigration court held that the Department of Homeland Security had not met its burden of proving removability, and the immigration court thereby terminated removal proceedings against Ms. Öztürk.' This development underscores the dangers of the government's interpretation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Under the government's view, it could punitively detain any noncitizen in retaliation for her speech for many months, so long as it simultaneously institutes removal proceedings—no matter how unmeritorious—all without any federal court review of the lawfulness of detention at any time. To be clear, the termination of Ms. Öztürk's removal proceedings does not moot her habeas case. (By contrast, as Ms. Öztürk has argued, this appeal is moot. Br. 18-20.) Without habeas jurisdiction and the bail order that is currently in place, any government appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals would again subject Ms. Öztürk to re-detention. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.6(a). For that reason, she continues to suffer the threat of continuing "now-or-never" First and Fifth Amendment harms. Br. in Opp. 55-57.
February 10, 2026 at 12:28 AM
memsomerville.bsky.social
I was not aware that #RumeysaOzturk was still held in this limbo. Damn.

#SomervilleMA
johnhawkinson.bsky.social John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social · Dec 4
Hi from Rümeysa Öztürk's hearing before Chief Judge Casper in federal court.

This is solely scoped to whether her SEVIS record should be restored, i.e. whether she can work and be a student.
December 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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#RumeysaOzturk #USPolitics
March 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
motherearth19309.bsky.social
#QatarsBitch #MarioMeléndez #KilmarAbregoGarcia #MahmoudKhalil #RümeysaÖztürk #ICE #DefundICE #ImpeachTrump #treason #electionfraud #insiderttrading #marketmanipulation #Signal #NATO #ICC #FireHegseth #FireGabbard #FireRatcliffe #FireBondi #FireNoem #puppykiller #ElSalvador #Corruption #Project2025
May 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
lquilter.bsky.social
This will take 5 minutes to read. It will stay with you for much, much longer.

#RumeysaOzturk
April 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
motherearth19309.bsky.social
#QatarsBitch #MarioMeléndez #KilmarAbregoGarcia #MahmoudKhalil #RümeysaÖztürk #ICE #DefundICE #ImpeachTrump #treason #electionfraud #insiderttrading #marketmanipulation #Signal #NATO #ICC #FireHegseth #FireGabbard #FireRatcliffe #FireBondi #FireNoem #puppykiller #ElSalvador #Corruption #Project2025
May 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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#Losdesaparecidos #RumeysaOzturk #federalkidnapping #illegaldetention
democracynow.org Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Mar 27
Over a thousand protesters gathered in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Wednesday to demand the freedom of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts PhD student and Fulbright scholar abducted by ICE agents.

Ozturk is believed to have been targeted for co-authoring an opinion piece for her student newspaper about Gaza.
March 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
womenwarriors.com
PICK A SIDE.

If your friend, partner, or relatives are part of the EVIL work of #ICE (in whatever role: kidnappers/admin/accounts/cleaning etc.) then you MUST tell them to quit.

OR QUIT THEM

FFS! - make a stand for what you say you believe in.

#ComplianceIsComplicity

Her name is #RumeysaOzturk
April 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM