A US immigration court has dismissed deportation proceedings against Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish PhD student and research assistant at Tufts University, terminating the case after the Department of Homeland Security failed to establish that she was removable. Ozturk had been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the revocation of her student visa.

Ozturk, a doctoral candidate in child study and human development, was detained in Massachusetts after the US State Department revoked her visa in connection with her involvement in pro-Pales-tinian activism. The action followed a 2024 opinion article she co-authored in the Tufts Daily that called on the university to end what the article described as complicity in Israel’s treatment of Pales-tinians. After publication, her personal information was posted on Canary Mission. US authorities accused her of supporting Ham-as but did not present evidence or file criminal charges.

The court’s decision comes amid continued scrutiny of immigration enforcement actions against foreign students involved in political activism. Attention has also focused on the detention of Leqaa Kordia, a Pales-tinian protester and the last Columbia University demonstrator still held by ICE, who was hospitalized this week following a seizure.