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April 14, 2025

State Dept. Has No Evidence Tying Abducted Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk to "Antisemitic" Activity
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The Washington Post reports the State Department found no evidence
linking Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to antisemitic
activities or public statements in support of terrorism, before masked
agents in plainclothes abducted her on the street in Somerville,
Massachusetts, on March 25. The Post reports a State Department memo
determined Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not have sufficient
grounds for revoking Ozturk's visa, contradicting public accusations
made by the Trump administration. The 30-year-old doctoral student from
Turkey remains jailed at a privately run ICE detention center in
Louisiana.


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