Tufts student says she has suffered multiple asthma attacks in Ice custody

Rumeysa Ozturk says she's experienced difficulty getting care and had her hijab ripped off without permission

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University student who was detained by US immigration authorities last month, says she has had multiple asthma attacks since she was arrested and detained and has had difficulty getting medical attention.

Ozturk, 30, was detained by masked, plainclothes officers as she walked in a Boston-area suburb on 25 March. A judge ordered that the Turkish national and doctoral student who was in the US on an F-1 student visa cannot be deported without a court order. But she remains detained at the South Louisiana Ice processing center in Basile.