(28 Mar 2025)
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Somerville, Massachusetts – 27 March 2025
1. Crowd chanting and holding signs at rally at Tufts University
2. Wide of rally organizer Sara Halawa leading crowd in chant
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sara Halawa, organizer:
"We have all seen the video and we all know that for the past three weeks ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has been going crazy in Somerville, terrorizing our immigrant communities and everybody who loves them and cares for them."
4. Various of crowd chanting and clapping
STORYLINE:
Crowds attended a rally in Somerville, Massachusetts on Thursday to protest the detention of a doctoral student from the city’s Tufts University.
Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old Turkish national, was detained by the Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation, according to her lawyer.
Ozturk, who was detained Tuesday shortly after she left her home in Somerville, had been moved to a detention center in Louisiana by the time her lawyer went to court and a judge ordered her to be kept in Massachusetts, U.S. government lawyers said in a court document Thursday.
They said they made her lawyers aware that she was being moved and facilitated contact with her Wednesday night.
It marks another case of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sending immigrants taken into custody to detention centers or deporting them altogether before a federal judge has a chance to weigh in and possibly halt the actions.
A senior Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said federal authorities detained Ozturk after an investigation found she had “engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans.”
The department did not provide evidence of that support.
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