Mrs Ozturk testified that she had been confined to 23 other women in a space for 14 people. The stress and smells of cleaning supplies had aggravated asthma, he said. But when she sought treatment, the medical staff at the detention center had consent to and had uploaded their voices to her, she said, and a nurse had cheated on her scarf.
She said it was “impossible” to work in her dissertation because she did not have access to the computer, teachers, library or peers. Ms Ozturk, who specializes in children’s media, is going to complete her doctoral thesis in December and obtain her degree in February, according to testimony.
Her adviser, Sara Johnson, testified that Ms. Ozturk did innovative research on how teenagers used social media to benefit other people.
Describing her ties with the Tufts community, Ms. Ozturk said she helped organize an event with colleagues where community members met to express sadness for children in conflict areas around the world, “from Gaza to Israel, from Russia to Ukraine to Ukraine to Ukraine to Ukraine to Ukraine to Ukraine to Afghanistan, from all parts of the world.
The judge’s ruling was another defeat for the government’s efforts to displace international students linked to the over-Palestinian defense. A week ago, a different federal judge in Vermont, Geoffrey W. Crawford, ordered the release of Mohsen Mahdawi, Columbia, a guarantee.
Mr Mahdawi is a permanent resident of the United States and is going to graduate from Columbia in May. His lawyers say that the government kept him in retaliation for his pre-Palestinian activism. He was arrested on April 14, following a naturalization interview with an immigration office.
