Attorneys for a Tufts University doctoral student grabbed off the street by plainclothes ICE officers earlier this week are accusing the federal government of violating her rights to “free speech and due process” in an updated legal petition filed on Friday. Her case drew attention after a chilling video of her arrest circulated on social media.
Rumeysa Ozturk’s visa was canceled apparently over an op-ed she co-wrote criticizing her university for refusing to recognize student government resolutions condemning Israel's war in Gaza, her attorneys say, published almost one year to the day before she was arrested on Tuesday. The arrest came as the Trump administration wages war on pro-Palestinian speech at college campuses around the country.
