Universities: Court success for Turkish student arrested in the USA

A Turkish doctoral student arrested at the Tufts University near Boston in the state of Massachusetts on the open street has achieved a success in court. After the arrest, she had been brought to a prison in Louisiana, 2,500 kilometers away in the state of Louisiana. Now a federal judge decided that it had to be brought back to Vermont by May 1, the broadcaster ABC and the newspaper “Boston Globe” reported. A deposit hearing should then take place there. The judge also spoke of “considerable constitutional concerns” in the event of arrest.

Disturbing images of the arrest

In pictures of a surveillance camera that were spread in US media, you could see how several men in dark civilian clothes, partly with hoodies, had approached the woman who came from the breaking of fasting. The frightened looking woman is surrounded and then dissipated.

The Minister of Justice of Massachusetts, Andrea Joy Campbell, had described the pictures of the arrest as disturbing. According to matching media reports, the student had a valid visa, in a declaration by the Ministry of Homeland on X it says that a visa is a privilege, no right. The student campaigned for the terrorist Hamas. According to media reports, she was a co-author of an article in a student newspaper from 2024 in which the university was asked to recognize that there was a genocide of Palestinians.

The greatest sensation in the United States had caused the Palestinian student Machmud Chalil to arrest. According to its lawyer, the graduate of the New York Columbia University has a GreenCard and thus an unlimited residence permit in the USA. The US government wants to deport him and accuses him of having distributed leaflets with the Islamist Hamas logo on the campus. He also sits in Louisiana.