A federal judge on Friday ordered the immediate release of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University who had been held for six weeks in an immigration detention center, ruling that her arrest and continued confinement were unlawful and raised serious constitutional concerns.
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00:00What we heard from the court today is what we have been saying for weeks and
00:11what courts have continued to repeat up and down through the litigation of this
00:15case thus far. There's absolutely no evidence that justifies detaining Ms.
00:21Ozturk for a single day, let alone the six and a half weeks that she has been
00:27detained because she wrote a single op-ed in her student newspaper exercising her
00:32First Amendment right to express an opinion. One of the dangers of what we
00:36are seeing in the government's behavior in this case is the very strong message
00:40it sends to people who are watching that you can be punished by your speech and
00:45what we heard from the court today was confirmation that that is not what we do
00:50in this country.