An immigration judge on Wednesday denied the bond for Rümeysa Öztürk, a graduate student from the University of Turkey of Turkey who was held last month after his visa was revoked, his lawyers said.
Öztürk, 30, is in custody in a federal detention center in Basile, Louisiana, where it was possible to be transferred after being Arrested last month by immigration authorities Outside your apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts.
His lawyers, who claim that he was arrested after co -writing an opinion article in the Campus newspaper, his detention violated his first and fifth amendment rights, and are trying to have released on bail or transferred to Vermont from Louisiana.
Öztürk’s lawyer Marty Rosenbluth said in a statement the day of his detention is a “complete violation of due process and the rule of law.”
Öztürk lawyers had asked an immigration judge who released her on bail as her immigration case is processed. That judge denied his request on Wednesday, the same day that Öztürk had a hearing, said his lawyers in a published statement Thorsday Morning.
His lawyers said the National Security Department presented a document to support its opposition to the Öztürk bond request: a memorandum of the State Department of a paragraph that revoked its student visa. The memorandum says that its visa was revoked after an evaluation that it had been involved in associations “‘that can undermine the foreign policy of the United States creating a hostile environment for Jewish students and indicating support for a designated terrorist organization’ that includes co -authorship of an opinion article that found a common cause with an organization that was later temporarily prohibited from the campus.”
Öztürk lawyers said the immigration judge denied bond based on the “unnecessable conclusion” that she was “a risk of escape and a danger to the community.”
CBS News has communicated with the DHS and the application of immigration and customs to comment.
Immigration officials Tok Öztürk in custody On March 25 when I returned from an Iphtar dinner. After being tasks of New Hampshire and then Vermont, it was fine on a plane the next day and moved to an ice detention center in Basile, Louisiana.
Öztürk was one of the four students who wrote an opinion article in the Campus newspaper, the Diario de Tufts, last year criticizing the university’s response to student activists who demand that Tufts “recognizes the Palestinian genocide and Taslose is his his same as his own his life, it is his is the one that is the one that is the one that is the one that is the one that is the one. ITSASTASSSENSSTMENTMMIDENS ITS.
Öztürk is one of several people with links with American universities whose visas were revoked or have been prevented from entering the United States after they became participating in publicly expressed demonstrations or support to the Palestinians. An immigration judge of Louisiana has ruled that the United States You can deport Activist from Columbia Mahmoud Khalil.
Öztürk lawyers are Challenge legal authority For the arrest of ICE. They have also asked the United States District Judge William Sessions in Vermont, where his arrest case was transferred after the lawyers first requested their release in Massachusetts, to take jurisdiction of it and release.
Sessions, who had a relations On Monday, he has not yet ruled. He had asked Öztürk’s lawyer if there was any suggestion of evidence that she was a member of the organization that was later “temporarily prohibited”, according to the memorandum of the State Department. His lawyers said there was.
