Federal court delays transfer of Tufts graduate student detained by ICE

A federal appeals court is delaying the return of detained Tufts apprentice Rumeysa Ozturk to New England Ozturk was detained on a Somerville street in March and was taken to Vermont then a facility in Louisiana Thursday a judge ordered that she be transferred back to Vermont The Trump administration filed an appeal to that order last week Ozturk s attorneys say she was unlawfully detained in retaliation for writing an op-ed criticizing Tuft s response to the war in Gaza The appeals court will hear arguments next week