Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30 -year -old Turkish Doctoral candidate at Boston Tufts University that was detained by immigration and customs execution In March, he returned to Massachusetts on Saturday after a judge ordered him to be released.
Ozturk spoke on Saturday evening at Boston Logan International Airport with Senator Ed Markey and Congressman Ayanna Pressley.
He thanked everyone in his community and around the world for their support for their case.
“I have faith in the North -American Justice System,” said Ozturk.
Ozturk added that during his time at the detention center, he received countless letters and his laboratory colleagues read his books over the phone.
“It has been a very difficult time for me, for my community in Tufts and Turkey. But I am very grateful for all the support,” Ozturk said at the press conference.
Markey started by saying that Ozturk proud millions of people across the country.
“It’s a victory for Rumeysa. It’s a victory for justice. It’s a victory for our democracy,” Markey said. “We are not fooled to think that we are different from Rumeysa. That what he has had to endure could never happen to any of the rest of us. His rights on the due process and free expression are everyone’s rights.”
“You are someone who will finally help our country to understand what we defend,” Markey told Ozturk.
Pressley was stifled while welcoming Ozturk at home.
“We have never forgotten of you. We will not rest until you are completely exonerated. Your visa is restored and is free to continue your studies and your service in our community,” said Pressley.
A Federal Judge of Vermont ordered Ozturk to be released on bail during An audience on Friday. Ozturk joined the audience remotely from Louisiana, where she was detained. She was released later that afternoon after six weeks at the detention center.
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“Thank you very much for all the support and love,” he told journalists moments after his launch.
RumaSya Ozturk released after six weeks
During Friday’s hearing, Ozturk and his lawyers argued that his due process and the rights of his first modification were violated when he was detained by Plain -plada ice agents in March.
U.S. District Judge, William Sessions, presided over the case, saying that the Trump administration had not provided any test for his arrest, as well as an option that was co-authored in the Tufts Student Diary last year. The Israel War focused on Op-Ed with Hamas.
The Trump administration has said that the piece was the main reason why its student visa was revoked.
During the hearing, one of his lawyers said that allowing -remaining in preventive detention shows that “it can be detained thousands of miles from your home for more than six weeks to write a single news article.”
Sessions said Ozturk has no criminal record and there is no background of his attractive or encouraging violence.
“There is no evidence here about motivation, absent from the consideration of the option,” sessions said in court. “The very significant and substantial statement that the op-Ed, that is, the expression of opinion as a protected normally by the first amendment-constituted the basis of this particular detention.”
Ozturk lawyers emphasized that his asthma has worsened while in arrest and would suffer “important health risks” if he stayed there. He said that he had experienced 12 asthma attacks since he was introduced to the detention center, each one worsening in length and intensity during his stay. He suffered an asthma attack during his sight and had to be excused for 10 minutes.
Trump administration had until May 14 to meet a court order To transfer Ozturk to Vermont. It is due to Vermont court on May 22, where the judge will weigh the position of Ozturk’s challenge for his enclosure.
Support to Ozturk
Leaders in Massachusetts Held the ruling on FridayIncluding democratic governor Maura Healey.
“This court order confirms what we already knew: the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk never treated public security,” Healey said in a statement. “He was part of the Trump Administration campaign to silence those who disagree with them.”
“He can return home, he returns to his community,” said Jessie Rossman, ACLU of Massachusetts’ legal director.
A spokesman for the University of Tufts said they expect them to unite them as soon as possible.
“”[The school is] With the satisfaction that the court has approved Rumeysa’s request to be released on bail and we hope to accommodate the campus to resume his doctoral studies. ”
The President of the University of Tufts Sunil Kumar has been Overdopoken in your support of Oztur and his launch. The university community and the surrounding area have met by Ozturk, and have remained innumerable protests after their arrest.
Details on how Ozturk was detained
Ozturk was detained on a Somerville sidewalk by masked ice officers on March 25. He went to the Interfaith Tufts center to break his Ramadan quickly at a dinner Iftar with his friends.
The surveillance video of his arrest was published online. You can hear a neighbor asking, “Is it a kidnapping?” In the video.
In a court presentation since the beginning of April, Ozturk said She feared for her life When he was in prison.
“I was very scared and worried when the men surrounded me and they took my phone,” Ozturk said in the statement. “But I didn’t think they were the police because they had never seen police approach and take someone like this.”
He said he felt “they would surely kill me” and denied his requests to talk to a lawyer.
Shortly after his prey, a Judge of Massachusetts ordered Ice to keep it in the state, but at that time he had been transferred to Vermont and was flown to Basile, Louisiana, later.
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