A group of lawmakers from Massachusetts traveled to a Louisiana detention facility on April 22 to call for the release of Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University graduate student who was detained ...

She was moved to a detention center in Louisiana (AP) “Rumeysa Ozturk never should have been arrested and detained, period,” her legal team said in a Tuesday statement to The Independent.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University graduate student, is detained in Louisiana for allegedly supporting Hamas. Ozturk's lawyers argue she's held for a pro-Palestine opinion piece, violating her ...