Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student held by Ice, released from Louisiana jail

PhD student arrested in March for political speech released on Friday after federal judge's ruling

Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University student arrested in March for her political speech, has been released from the Louisiana detention center where she was being held in what she and her lawyers had argued was a breach of her constitutional rights.

A federal judge on Friday morning had ordered Ozturk's return to Vermont, where she was briefly held after being grabbed on the street by masked immigration agents near Boston, for hearings. But the judge decided not to wait for her physical transportation and she appeared remotely from Louisiana at the hearing in Burlington on Friday.