The immigration authorities in the United States arrested a Turkish doctoral student visa at the University of Tatz near Boston, who expressed his support for the Palestinians during the Israel war in Gaza.

Lawyer Mohasa Khanabei in a petition in the Boston Federal Court said that Romisis Ozturk, 30, left her house in Sompeel on Tuesday night to meet friends and broke her in Ramadan when she was arrested by agents of the Ministry of Internal Security.

Ozturk supporters say her detention is the first known arrest of a student of a student in the Boston region participating in such activity that is being implemented during President Donald Trump’s era.

His administration has He was detained or sought to detain many foreign students Those who are legally in the United States and participated in the pro -Palestinian protests.

The procedures were convicted as an attack on freedom of expression, although the Trump administration argues that some anti -Semitic protests can undermine US foreign policy.

“The authorities have decided that Ozturk” is participating in activities to support Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that enjoys the killing of Americans. “

“The visa is a privilege, not really.”

Romsia Ozturk, a graduate student at Tuts National University and Roads, has granted a privilege to be in this country in a visa.

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The activities were not specified. But the arrest of Oztuk came a year after the student participated in writing an opinion article in the student’s school paper, The Tuffs Daily, which criticized the TVTS response to students’ calls to get rid of companies with relations with Israel and “recognition of the Palestinian collective genocide.”

“Based on patterns we see throughout the country, its exercises seem to have freedom of expression have played a role in its detention.”

“It looked like a kidnapping.”

After the arrest of Ozturk, Khanabai filed a lawsuit late on Tuesday, on the pretext that it was illegally detained, prompting the provincial judge Indira Talwani in Boston that night to order immigration and customs (ICE) to not notify Massachusetts without notice at least 48 hours.

Despite the judge’s order, by noon on Wednesday, Khanabai said in a suggestion that she was unable to locate her client in New England and was just informed by the American Senator’s Office that Ozturk was transferred to Louisiana. I asked for a court order to ask ICE to allow Oztuk.

The student’s detention was condemned by Democratic lawmakers, including American Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who said that “arrest is the latest in a disturbing pattern to strangle civil freedoms.” A crowd was expected to support her later on Wednesday in Sompel.

The neighbors said they were left due to the arrest, which was played at 5:30 pm on a residential bloc.

“It looked like a kidnapping,” said Michael Makis, a 32 -year -old software engineer, where the surveillance camera captured the detention footage. “They approach them and start seizing their faces covered. They cover their faces. They are in unique vehicles.”

The Trump administration has targeted international students because it seeks to take strict migration measures, including intensifying migration and bounding border crossings sharply.

Trump and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, in particular, pledged to deport foreign demonstrators supporting the Palestinians, accusing them of supporting Hamas militants, demonstrating with obstacles to American foreign policy, and being anti -Semitic.

The demonstrators, including some Jewish groups, say that the administration is wrongly mixing their criticism of Israel and supporting Palestinian rights with anti -Semitism and supporting Hamas.

Targeting university students

Ozturk is a researcher and student in the TUFTS PhD program to study children and human development, according to her LinkedIn profile, and she previously studied at Columbia University in New York.

It was in the country on the F-1 visa, which allows students to live in the United States during the study, according to the lawsuit.

In a statement, the president of Tuffs Sonlle Kumar said that the school does not have prior knowledge of arrest, which he confessed to be “sad for some members of our society, especially members of our international society.”

OzTurk was detained after less than three weeks Mahmoud KhalilA graduate of Colombia University and the permanent legal resident, was similarly arrested. He challenges his detention after Trump accused him, without evidence, of supporting Hamas, which Khalil denies.

Federal immigration officials are also seeking to detention a student at the University of Colombia in South Korea, a legal resident in the United States and participated in the pro -Palestinians protests, a step banned by the courts at the present time.

A Lebanese doctor and assistant professor at the University of Brown in Rod Island was rejected this month from re -entering the United States and was deported to Lebanon after the Trump administration claimed that its phone contained “sympathetic” pictures with Hezbollah. Rasha Ausieh said that she does not support the group, but she looks at her murdered leader because of her religion.

The Trump administration also targeted students at Cornell University in New York and Georgetown University in Washington.