US court blocks deportation of pro-Palestine Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk

A US immigration court has dropped the deportation case against Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University who was detained by ICE over her pro-Palestine activism. Ozturk's student visa was revoked after she co-authored an article calling for her university to end its complicity with Israel, and she was subsequently targeted by a pro-Israel doxxing platform. The Department of Homeland Security accused her of supporting Hamas but failed to provide evidence to the court, leading to the termination of proceedings. The case is highlighted alongside that of another detained activist, Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman arrested during pro-Gaza protests at Columbia University.