Tufts University leaders said that they have no information that supports the revocation of Rümeysa Öztürk's visa or her detainment in an ICE facility in Louisiana. The post Tufts officials call for ICE to release grad student as federal hearing nears appeared first on Boston.

Ahead of a Boston court hearing scheduled Thursday regarding federal immigration agents' detainment of a Tufts University student, the school called for her release.

After being picked up in Massachusetts, Rumeysa Ozturk was moved to a detention center in Louisiana, where the government wants to argue its case to deport her.

A Tufts University student is being held at an ICE detention facility in Louisiana, and there are growing questions about how she was taken into custody.

The Tufts University PhD student who was detained by detained by immigration authorities last week and rushed out of Massachusetts released her first statement on Thursday.

Rumeysa Ozturk, who is from Turkey and in the United States on a student visa, was taken to a detention center in Louisiana.

Tufts University wants a federal judge to release, without delay, Rumeysa Ozturk, the Fulbright Scholar from Turkey grabbed off the street by masked ICE agents.

Lawyers for a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities have argued that she should be returned to Massachusetts