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Free Speech For People and Somerville for Palestine have launched a joint petition calling for a criminal investigation into the kidnapping of PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk. Will you sign and share this petition with two or more people to show your support? [[link removed]]
In a recent op-ed [[link removed]] published by MassLive , Free Speech For People’s John Bonifaz and Alexandra Flores-Quilty urge Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan to take action. Attorney General Campbell has stated there was little she could do to hold ICE accountable. But when it comes to enforcing state criminal laws prohibiting kidnapping, the duty is squarely with the state attorney general and the district attorney where the kidnapping occurred. Massachusetts has the opportunity and responsibility not only to draw a line in the sand for the state, but to take leadership nationally as politically motivated, unlawful abductions by the Trump Administration continue to occur.
SIGN HERE: Attorney General Campbell and Middlesex County District Attorney Ryan must launch a criminal investigation today. [[link removed]]
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Öztürk is a PhD student at Tufts University who has lived and studied in the United States on a valid student visa since 2018. One year ago, she co-wrote an op-ed in the Tufts school newspaper that called upon the university to abide by undergraduate student Senate resolutions that sought to hold Israel accountable for international law violations against the Palestinian people by divesting from Israeli companies. This exercise of her First Amendment rights to speak out on Palestine appears to be the sole reason plainclothes ICE officers kidnapped her, after the DHS unlawfully stripped her of her visa that same day without notice.
She was snatched off the street in broad daylight, secretly smuggled out of Massachusetts, and sent to a detention facility in Louisiana, where initially she was denied access to her attorneys and where her attorneys could not verify the conditions of her confinement or whether she was receiving adequate medical care. She suffered numerous asthma attacks while she was detained and was denied medication.
Free Speech For People sent a formal request to review the case, issued via a detailed letter [[link removed]] to Attorney General Campbell and District Attorney Ryan in April. The undisputed facts provide a basis for undertaking an inquiry into whether President Donald Trump, senior Trump officials–including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem–and ICE agents conspired to kidnap Rümeysa Öztürk.
But we need your help.
We need to make it clear that the public will not stand for the egregious and illegal abduction of Öztürk for exercising her right to free speech in support of Palestine.
Sign and share our petition for a criminal investigation of those responsible for Öztürk’s kidnapping. [[link removed]]
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In solidarity,
Free Speech For People
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