[ [link removed] ]Rumeysa Ozturk, wearing a headscarf and white coat, being ambushed by
several masked ICE agents

Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted by ICE agents, all
because she challenged her university's response to the pro-Palestine
student movement. 

If we raise an outcry right away demanding an end to this Gestapo-like
crackdown, we can stop many more innocent people from being doxxed,
threatened and abducted. 


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John,

The footage is chilling: Tufts University and Fulbright student Rümeysa
Öztürk was ambushed and abducted by masked ICE agents. In the video, you
can hear her desperate pleas. 

Her crime? Co-authoring an opinion piece in the university’s newspaper
last year challenging Tufts’ response to the pro-Palestinian student
movement. Now her visa has been revoked and she's facing deportation. 

We are witnessing the US rapidly spiral into an authoritarian state.

If we raise an outcry right away demanding an end to this Gestapo-like
crackdown, we can stop more innocent people from being doxxed, threatened,
and abducted. 

[ [link removed] ]Tell US universities and local authorities: protect your students
against unjust abductions, and heed the call to divest from companies
fueling Israel’s genocide. 

Rümeysa isn’t the first and she won’t be the last student protester to be
disappeared by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Department of
Homeland Security claims she was “engaged in activities in support of
Hamas” but offered no further details or proof of this allegation.

These arrests aren’t about national security. This is an attempt to spread
fear and prevent students from protesting a genocide that the US is
fueling. 

If we don’t raise an overwhelming outcry, and do it fast, this type of
tyrannical crackdown will become normalized, and who’s to say what could
come next. More than ever, we need everyone everywhere demanding the
release of the abducted students and an end the repression against
pro-Palestine / anti-genocide protesters. 

[ [link removed] ]Tell US universities and local authorities: protect your students
against unjust abductions, and heed the call to divest from companies
fueling Israel’s genocide. 



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Thanks for all that you do,
The team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]What we know about the Tufts University student detained by federal
agents
CNN. March 27, 2025

[ [link removed] ]Tufts PhD student detained by masked immigration authorities on
Somerville street sent to detention facility in Louisiana
Boston Globe. March 26, 2025

 

 

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