Federal court rules Rumeysa Ozturk must be transferred to detention in Vermont
Source: NPR
A federal appeals court in New York Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to transfer Rmeysa ztrk, a Tufts University doctoral student, from Louisiana to Vermont to continue her immigration detention in that state while a judge there decides whether to release her on bail.
The Trump administration has one week to comply with the transfer, a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
"The District of Vermont is likely the proper venue to adjudicate ztrk's habeas petition because, at the time she filed, she was physically in Vermont," the panel wrote in its ruling.
ztrk has been detained at a federal facility in Louisiana after being arrested on the street in Sommerville, Massachusetts on March 25 by six federal plainclothes immigration agents. The Department of Homeland Security later accused her of engaging "in activities in support of Hamas." She has not been charged with any crime. Her attorneys say she's being held in violation of her free speech and due process rights and that the government has not shown any evidence she supports terrorism.
"No one should be arrested and locked up for their political views," said Esha Bhandari with the ACLU, which is representing her in federal court. "We're grateful the court refused the government's attempt to keep her isolated from her community and her legal counsel as she pursues her case for release."
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/g-s1-64726/federal-court-rules-student-rumeysa-ozturk-detention-vermont-challenge
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