Tufts University is urging for the immediate release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student who has been detained by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) due to alleged ties to Hamas. Despite being in good standing, her visa was revoked, prompting the university to challenge the accusations and express worries about the potential effects on campus security. Ozturk is presently held at a detention center in Louisiana. The situation has raised concerns within the university community and among Ozturk’s supporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tufts University is urging for the immediate release of Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student who has been detained by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) due to alleged ties to Hamas. Despite being in good standing, her visa was revoked, prompting the university to challenge the accusations and express worries about the potential effects on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":87366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-119931963imgsize-183698-1.jpg",1322,881,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-119931963imgsize-183698-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-119931963imgsize-183698-1-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-119931963imgsize-183698-1-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-119931963imgsize-183698-1-1024x682.jpg",640,426,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-119931963imgsize-183698-1.jpg",1322,881,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-119931963imgsize-183698-1.jpg",1322,881,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/author\/"},"category_info":"JUST IN<\/a>","tag_info":"JUST IN","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}