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TUFTS STUDENT CAN RESUME RESEARCH AFTER TRUMP OFFICIALS REVOKED HER
VISA, JUDGE RULES  
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Associated Press
December 9, 2025
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_ Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested in March amid White House’s
crackdown on foreign students’ pro-Palestinian advocacy _

Rümeysa Öztürk in Boston, Massachusetts, on 10 May., Faith
Ninivaggi/Reuters

 

 

A federal judge has allowed a Tufts University student from Turkey to
resume research and teaching while she deals with the consequences of
having her visa revoked by the Trump administration
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six weeks of detention.

Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student studying children’s relationship to
social media, was among the first people arrested
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as the Trump administration
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targeting foreign-born students and activists involved in
pro-Palestinian advocacy. She had co-authored an op-ed
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criticizing her university’s response to Israel and the war in Gaza.
Immigration enforcement officers took her away in an unmarked vehicle,
in an encounter caught on video in March outside her Somerville
residence.

 
Öztürk has been out of a Louisiana immigrant detention center since
May
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and back on the Tufts campus. But she has been unable to teach or
participate in research as part of her studies because of the
termination of her record in the government’s database of foreign
students studying temporarily in the US.

In her ruling on Monday, chief US district judge Denise J Casper wrote
that Öztürk is likely to succeed on claims that the termination was
“arbitrary and capricious, contrary to law and in violation of the
First Amendment”.

The government’s lawyers unsuccessfully argued that the Boston
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jurisdiction and that Öztürk’s Student and Exchange Visitor
Information System record (Sevis) record was terminated legally after
her visa was revoked, making her eligible for removal proceedings.

“There’s no statute or regulation that’s been violated by the
termination of the SEVIS record in this case,” Mark Sauter, an
assistant US attorney, said during a hearing last week. The Associated
Press sent an email on Tuesday seeking comment from Sauter on whether
the government plans to appeal.

In a statement, Öztürk, who plans to graduate next year, said while
she is grateful for the court’s decision, she feels “a great deal
of grief” for the education she has been “arbitrarily denied as a
scholar and a woman in my final year of doctoral studies”.

“I hope one day we can create a world where everyone uses education
to learn, connect, civically engage and benefit others – rather than
criminalize and punish those whose opinions differ from our own,”
said Öztürk, who is still challenging her arrest and detention.

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* Rümeysa Öztürk; Trump Student Arrests; Pro-Palestinian
Students; Tufts;
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