Judge orders bail for Tufts University pro-Palestinian student detained by ICE | 9 May 2025 | Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University doctoral student grabbed by ICE in Massachusetts and imprisoned in Louisiana, was granted bail from ICE detention Friday. U.S. District Judge William Sessions said at the end of the hearing that Ozturk raised “very substantial” and “very significant” claims of First Amendment and due process rights violations in her case. He said her detention cannot stand. The judge ordered the government to immediately release her.