US Federal Judge Orders Immediate Release of Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk

Washington (Quds News Network)- A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the immediate release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University, whose video-recorded arrest by masked federal agents sparked outrage amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestine students.

Judge William Sessions III, who presided over her case, ruled that Ozturk had been unlawfully detained in March for little more than authoring an op-ed critical of Israel in her school…