#Democratic lawmakers call for release of #Tufts student from #ICE detention

Jim McGovern and Ayanna Pressley exhort authorities to free Rümeysa Öztürk, calling her treatment ‘repression’

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Anna Betts
Fri 25 Apr 2025 13.02 EDT

A group of high-profile Democratic lawmakers has called on the Donald #Trump administration to immediately release the #TuftsUniversity graduate student #RümeysaÖztürk, praised her “unwavering spirit” and warned that the White House is engaging in “repression”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/trump-tufts-rumeysa-ozturk-ice?CMP=share_btn_url

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

Michigan's #Democratic AG Under Fire After Armed Agents Raid Homes of Palestine Defenders

"We are totally convinced that, but for their viewpoints, these students would not have been targeted," said one attorney.

from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Apr 23, 2025

" Federal and local law enforcement officers smashed their way into the #Michigan homes of pro-#Palestine student organizers on Wednesday in what the state attorney general's office said was a vandalism probe—but critics called an attack on dissent against #Israel's genocidal assault on #Gaza. "

https://www.commondreams.org/news/michigan-raids-palestine

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#StopGazaGenocide
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #DanaNessel #Trump
#news #press @palestine

🚨 #MICHIGAN: 🚨 🚨 #ALERT 🚨 🚨

FBI fascists and local oinkers 🐷 raided the homes of #UniversityOfMichigan #PalestinianRightsActvists in #AnnArbor, #Ipsilante, and Canton on Wednesday.

The targets of the raids participated in campus nonviolent #antiwar protests.

Disgrace to the #queer community  , traitor to humanity and #zionazi, Attorney General #DanaNessel, claims they're part of a 'vandalism investigation' 🤨 (#wtf?)

The CouncilOnAmericanIslamicRelations #CAIR : 'Peaceful dissent is NOT a crime'

No search warrant was provided. Trigger warning for #PTSD victims of police violence. Please take care ☮️ .

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p4hbf4KPLpk (video provided by the #TAHRIRCoalition and #DemocracyNow)

(SOURCE for story: DemocracyNow)

#ProtestIsNOTACrime #FreeFreePalestine 🇵🇸

‘National disgrace’: US lawmakers decry student detentions on visit to Ice jails

Delegation visits jails where #MahmoudKhalil and #RümeysaÖztürk are being held and denounce ‘authoritarian’ #Trump

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Dani Anguiano
Tue 22 Apr 2025 20.31 EDT

"#Öztürk, a #TuftsUniversity PhD student, and #Khalil, a graduate of #Columbia, have been detained for more than a month since US immigration authorities took them into custody. Neither have been accused of criminal conduct and are being held in violation of their constitutional rights, members of the delegation said."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/mahmoud-khalil-rumeysa-ozturk-ice-detention?CMP=share_btn_url

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
#news #press

'Do You Realize That This Is Kafkaesque?':
#Trump's Attacks on Foreign Students Stun Judges

"Disenrolling students was already a blatant capitulation, and now it is a wholly inexcusable one," said one attorney.

from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Apr 22, 2025

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-student-visas

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#Release Rümeysa Öztürk
#StopTheDeportations
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#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
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#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
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Detained #Turkish student must be transferred from #Louisiana for hearing, judge rules

#RümeysaÖztürk was taken by #immigration officials over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for op-ed

from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
via #TheGuardian
Fri 18 Apr 2025 18.40 EDT

"A federal judge on Friday ordered that a #Turkish #TuftsUniversity student detained by immigration authorities in Louisiana be brought to #Vermont by 1 May for a hearing over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for an op-ed piece she co-wrote in the student newspaper."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/tufts-student-judge-hearing?CMP=share_btn_url

#Release Rümeysa Öztürk
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press @palestine

"Come for one, face us all."

from #TheWire
[online publication of #JewishVoiceForPeace #JVP in #USA]

"Desperate to crush popular and growing opposition to #Israel’s genocide, the #Trump regime is shredding our First Amendment rights.

But we’re not backing down. Shortly after Mohsen was arrested, over a thousand Jews and allies gathered for an emergency Passover seder outside ICE headquarters in NYC to demand his and other student activists’ release.

Our message is clear: “Come for one, face us all.”"

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/04/16/come-for-one-face-us-all/

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#repression
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#news #press
@palestine @israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G4G-ue4Mr0

#TheHumanistReport

U.S. Republicans STILL Getting Ruthlessly Mocked and Berated at #TownHalls

#NancyMaceOUT #MarjorieTaylorGreeneOUT
#FascistUSA #ACABGeorgia #JailInsideTraders

#ProtestIsNOTACrime #ACAB

Harvard University punished with $2b funding freeze for defying Trump

Freeze followed a letter sent on Monday to the Trump administration saying it rejects the government’s demands

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 15 April 2025 21:30 BST

"The freeze, representing 35.9 percent of #Harvard's $6.4bn operating expenses, immediately followed a letter on Monday from #HarvardUniversity lawyers to the #Trump administration, stating that it rejected the government’s demands.

The letter, issued by Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and LLP King & Spalding LLP, said that “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”"

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/harvard-university-punished-2b-funding-freeze-defying-trump

#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#FreeMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine