Tufts University has issued a declaration of support for international graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was taken into custody by the Department of Homeland Security last week. Ozturk was apprehended outside her off-campus apartment in Somerville,

A Tufts University student is being held at an ICE detention facility in Louisiana, and there are growing questions about how she was taken into custody.

"Efforts to target me because of my op-ed in the Tufts Daily calling for the equal dignity and humanity of all people will not deter me from my commitment to advocate for the rights of youth and children.