A federal judge of Vermont decided not to wait for the transfer of a student from the Turkish tufts university of an immigration detention center in Louisiana to plan a release hearing on Friday, more than six weeks after his arrest By walking along a street In a suburbs of Boston.
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, is expected to appear remotely at the audience in Burlington.
His lawyers say that his detention violates his constitutional rights, in particular freedom of expression and regular procedure. They called for his release.
The United States Ministry of Justice said that an immigration court in Louisiana, which conducts a separate dismissal procedure concerning Ozturk, has jurisdiction over its case.
American district judge William Sessions Transfer of Ozturk ordered to VermontWhere she was confined for the last time before she was taken to Louisiana. The government has requested a delay, but A federal court of appeal confirmed His decision on Wednesday, ordering Ozturk to be transferred to the police custody of Vermont no later than May 14.
The sessions decided not to wait for the transfer, by continuing the hearing of release under bail.
Immigration officials surrounded Ozturk in Massachusetts on March 25 and led him to New Hampshire and Vermont before putting it on a plane in a detention center in Basil, Louisiana. Her student visa had been dismissed several days earlier, but she was not informed of this, said her lawyers.
Ozturk's lawyers first placed a petition on his behalf in the Massachusetts, but they did not know where she was and could only speak to her more than 24 hours after her detention. A Massachusetts judge then transferred the case to Vermont.
Ozturk was one of the four students who wrote an editorial in the Campus Journal, The Tufts Daily, last year criticizing the university's response to militant students demanding that Tofts “recognize the Palestinian genocide”, disclose its investments and unfold companies related to Israel.
A service note from the State Department said that the Ozturk visa had been dismissed following an evaluation that its actions “can undermine the American foreign policy by creating a hostile environment for Jewish students and indicating support for an designated terrorist organization”, in particular as a co-author of an editorial which found a common cause with an organization which was temporarily prohibited after the campus.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Security said in March, without providing evidence, that the surveys revealed that Ozturk was delivered to Hamas supporting activities, a terrorist group designated by the United States.
