Finally. My fellow Fulbright Scholar Rumeysa Ozturk has been freed.
My country jailed her for over a month as—let’s be perfectly frank—a political prisoner. Why? Because she wrote a mild oped that criticised Israel in her student newspaper.
I've thought of her every day.
My country jailed her for over a month as—let’s be perfectly frank—a political prisoner. Why? Because she wrote a mild oped that criticised Israel in her student newspaper.
I've thought of her every day.
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"There is absolutely no evidence that she has engaged in violence, or advocated violence, [and] she has no criminal record."
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-demands-ice-release-tufts-student-who-says-she-was-targeted-for-pro-palestine-op-ed/
Like the Canadian Jasmine Mooney & others detained in ICE facilities, she was not given the choice to buy a ticket back to her country afaik.
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-demands-ice-release-tufts-student-who-says-she-was-targeted-for-pro-palestine-op-ed/
Apologists for the Trump administration here cited Rubio's claim that they had evidence against her besides an oped. But Rubio was apparently lying.
Reporting by @premthakker.bsky.social:
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk
It routinely targets ppl for protected 1A speech.
"This was deeply shameful, from the moment masked men unjustly kidnapped her, stuffed her into a van & locked her up."
Agreed.