An American Federal Judge of the State of Vermont ordered, Friday, May 9, the immediate release of a Turkish student arrested in March by the immigration police, which has become one of the symbols of the will of the Trump administration to muzzle the solidarity movement with the Palestinians of Gaza against Israel.
The video of the arrest, at the end of March, of Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student from the Toft University in Massachusetts, by in civilian agents of immigration services (ICE), masked faces and for certain hoods on the head, with a view to his expulsion, had aroused indignation.
The only reason invoked by the government to justify the expulsion of Rumeysa Ozturk is an article that she had co -signed in March 2024 in her university newspaper, the Daily tuftscriticizing the way in which his establishment managed the protest movement against the war waged by Israel in the Gaza Strip.
The executive has since largely had the opportunity to present other elements, but did not do so, recalled judge William Sessions after a hearing in which Rumeysa Ozturk participated in videoconference of a detention center managed by Ice in Louisiana where she has been imprisoned for several weeks.
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“At the same time, the extension of his detention censures the freedom of expression of millions of people who are not citizens of this country. Any of them can now hesitate to exercise their freedom of expression guaranteed by the first amendment [de la Constitution] fear of being embarked to a detention center far from home “underlined the magistrate.
He refused to match this release of the conditions suggested by the government in matters of freedom of movement. Rumeysa Ozturk is “Free to return home to Massachusetts” and “Move” Beyond this state, he said.
The sessions judge nevertheless demanded that this release be supervised regularly by a municipal center for reintegration of detainees in the Vermont which will report to him.
He also proposed that lawyers for Rumeysa Ozturk and immigration services are suitable for “Light conditions” to her freedom to come and go since she remains under an expulsion procedure.
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