Tufts University Student Romeysa Ozturk Released From ICE Detention After Judge’s Order

A Vermont judge granted bail to Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student whose visa was revoked and who has been held in ICE custody for more than six weeks.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Mass., on March 26, 2025. AP Photo

Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk was released from immigration detention on May 9 following a court order, over six weeks after her visa was revoked and she was taken into custody in Massachusetts.

U.S. District Judge William Sessions granted bail during a hearing in Burlington, Vermont, allowing Ozturk to be released from the Louisiana detention facility where she has been held since late March.