Federal immigration authorities detain Tufts graduate student

Her attorney, Mahsa Khanbabai, has filed a habeas petition in Massachusetts federal court for Ozturk to be released from detention. The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, is student at the Tufts’s doctoral program for Child Study and Human Development, according to her LinkedIn, and graduated with a master’s degree from the Teachers College at Columbia University. Federal immigration authorities late Tuesday detained a Tufts PhD student who is a Turkish national, her attorney and community activists said. In a statement provided through her attorney, community activists said that Ozturk was “ambushed” by...