Tufts Grad Student Öztürk Is Freed on Bail in Trump Setback (1)

A federal judge freed a Turkish graduate student on bail while she fights possible deportation over the Trump administration’s claims of antisemitism in an op-ed she helped write.

The ruling Friday in favor of Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk is the latest setback for the administration, amid a crackdown on foreign students it says are engaging in antisemitic activism over Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. The judge released her on her own recognizance and declined to restrict her travel as the US requested.

Öztürk’s detainment “chills the speech of the millions and millions of people in this country ...