Government attorneys say Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was taken into custody on Tuesday in Somerville, Massachusetts, was taken out of state before a federal judge issued an order limiting the government’s ability to move her. Court documents reviewed by NewsCenter 5 on Thursday also show that the government promised to provide a more complete timeline of the arrest and transfer in a formal response that is due by Friday. Ozturk, 30, a Turkish national who was maintaining a valid F-1 status, was detained near her home as she left to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast, according to her attorney, Mahsa Khanbabai.A representative of the Department of Homeland Security said the student “engaged in activities in support of Hamas.”Ozturk was taken to be held in Louisiana. In a document, the government attests she was already outside of Massachusetts when her attorney filed a writ of habeas corpus on Tuesday and when U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani ordered that Ozturk not be moved outside of Massachusetts without at least 48 hours of advance notice to the court.Talwani also gave immigration officials until Friday to formally respond to a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Ozturk case. Other documents reviewed by NewsCenter 5 indicate Khanbabai did not initially know the location of her client and did not speak to her until Wednesday at 9:45 p.m. Ozturk nabbed on Somerville streetA video of her detainment shared with WCVB shows three agents getting out of a parked SUV and approaching Ozturk as two other agents join and take the woman into custody.On Wednesday evening, Khanbabai released a statement regarding Ozturk’s detainment that read in part: “Masked and plainclothes DHS agents unlawfully arrested my client Rumeysa Ozturk, a Fulbright scholar and graduate student residing in Massachusetts on a valid student visa.”Video below: Surveillance shows Tufts graduate student detainedTufts said it was told the student’s visa status was terminated.”The university had no pre-knowledge of this incident and did not share any information with federal authorities prior to the event, and the location where this took place is not affiliated with Tufts University,” University President Sunil Kumar said in a statement.Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said Wednesday that “Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas.””DHS + ICE investigations found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. A visa is a privilege, not a right,” she posted on social media. “Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated. This is commonsense security.”Meanwhile, the university is working to learn more about the circumstances of why the student was apprehended and will connect them with external legal resources if the student requests assistance, the school said.Organizers of the Palestinian Youth Movement held an “emergency rally” Wednesday evening for Ozturk. More than 1,000 people gathered in Powder House Square Park for the rally.Video below: Rally in support of detained studentOzturk was among the authors of an op-ed for The Tufts Daily last year. It called for the university to acknowledge genocide in Palestine and divest from companies with ties to Israel.Tufts was the site of a pro-Palestine protest encampment last year, which was removed in May after a student group said its negotiations with the administration failed. Tufts said it has established rules for working with government agencies on unannounced visits, and students and staff should call Tufts police if they see any federal activity.

MEDFORD, Mass. —Government attorneys say Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was taken into custody on Tuesday in Somerville, Massachusetts, was taken out of state before a federal judge issued an order limiting the government’s ability to move her.

Court documents reviewed by NewsCenter 5 on Thursday also show that the government promised to provide a more complete timeline of the arrest and transfer in a formal response that is due by Friday.

Ozturk, 30, a Turkish national who was maintaining a valid F-1 status, was detained near her home as she left to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast, according to her attorney, Mahsa Khanbabai.

A representative of the Department of Homeland Security said the student “engaged in activities in support of Hamas.”

Ozturk was taken to be held in Louisiana. In a document, the government attests she was already outside of Massachusetts when her attorney filed a writ of habeas corpus on Tuesday and when U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani ordered that Ozturk not be moved outside of Massachusetts without at least 48 hours of advance notice to the court.

Talwani also gave immigration officials until Friday to formally respond to a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Ozturk case.

Other documents reviewed by NewsCenter 5 indicate Khanbabai did not initially know the location of her client and did not speak to her until Wednesday at 9:45 p.m.

Ozturk nabbed on Somerville street

A video of her detainment shared with WCVB shows three agents getting out of a parked SUV and approaching Ozturk as two other agents join and take the woman into custody.

On Wednesday evening, Khanbabai released a statement regarding Ozturk’s detainment that read in part:

“Masked and plainclothes DHS agents unlawfully arrested my client Rumeysa Ozturk, a Fulbright scholar and graduate student residing in Massachusetts on a valid student visa.”

Video below: Surveillance shows Tufts graduate student detained

Tufts said it was told the student’s visa status was terminated.

“The university had no pre-knowledge of this incident and did not share any information with federal authorities prior to the event, and the location where this took place is not affiliated with Tufts University,” University President Sunil Kumar said in a statement.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said Wednesday that “Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas.”

“DHS + ICE investigations found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. A visa is a privilege, not a right,” she posted on social media. “Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated. This is commonsense security.”

Meanwhile, the university is working to learn more about the circumstances of why the student was apprehended and will connect them with external legal resources if the student requests assistance, the school said.

Organizers of the Palestinian Youth Movement held an “emergency rally” Wednesday evening for Ozturk. More than 1,000 people gathered in Powder House Square Park for the rally.

Video below: Rally in support of detained student

Ozturk was among the authors of an op-ed for The Tufts Daily last year. It called for the university to acknowledge genocide in Palestine and divest from companies with ties to Israel.

Tufts was the site of a pro-Palestine protest encampment last year, which was removed in May after a student group said its negotiations with the administration failed.

Tufts said it has established rules for working with government agencies on unannounced visits, and students and staff should call Tufts police if they see any federal activity.