Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk has been released – following a federal judge’s order in Vermont - from a Louisiana detention center where she has spent the last six weeks after being snatched by masked plainclothes officers in broad daylight near her Massachusetts home in March,

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.

A district court judge ordered the Tufts Ph.D. student to be released on bail after more than six weeks in detention for merely writing an op-ed in her student newspaper.