Tufts student detained for authoring op-ed denied bail by US immigration judge

Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk was seized in Massachusetts by plainclothes agents and spirited to Louisiana detention center

A Turkish PhD student and former Fulbright scholar detained after co-authoring a campus newspaper op-ed about Gaza has been denied bond by an immigration judge, as her legal team continues to urgently petition a federal court in Vermont for her release.

Rumeysa Ozturk, who had been studying at Tufts University, was seized by plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents on 25 March near her home in Massachusetts and shuttled through three states before landing in a Louisiana detention facility - all without being charged with any crime.