[ [link removed] ]Ayanna Pressley for Congress



When a government begins to imprison writers for their words, when it
brazenly disregards the law in favor of an authoritarian political agenda,
when it cloaks oppression in the language of national security, alarm
bells must ring. Loudly.

My colleagues Senator Markey, Congressman McGovern, and I recently visited
my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk — who is being unlawfully detained at an
Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana.

We will NOT stand by as our neighbors are disappeared and detained. Please
read our Op-Ed in the New York Times below uplifting Rümeysa’s story,
calling on the Department of Homeland Security for her immediate release,
and signaling our warning for all Americans. And please forward this
message along to your friends and family.

Ayanna

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We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. What We Saw Was a Warning to Us All.

By Edward J. Markey, Jim McGovern and Ayanna Pressley

A young woman walked casually down a public street only to find herself
suddenly surrounded by masked law enforcement officers in plain clothes.
Without explanation — and in the absence of criminal charges and any due
process — she was forced into a waiting vehicle and vanished into the
labyrinth of the state security system.

Sound familiar? You’d be forgiven for thinking we’re recounting what
happened to the Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk in
Somerville, Mass., last month. But no: That was the September 2020
abduction of the political activist Maria Kolesnikova in the capital of
Belarus, the former Soviet republic that is home to one of the most
repressive governments in the world.

Disappearances like Ms. Kolesnikova’s are disturbingly common under
authoritarian regimes where dissent is quashed and the rule of law is more
fiction than fact. That a similar scene would unfold in Somerville in
March 2025 as part of the Trump administration’s revived immigration
crackdown should send a chill down the spine of every American.

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