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There is clear evidence of serious wrongdoing in the Tufts student’s case—and it’s all on the part of the government.
Eric Fingerhut opposed a letter signed by major denominations that urged due process for pro-Palestinian protesters.
A federal judge has ordered that a Turkish Tufts University student who was detained by immigration authorities in March to ...
In a letter sent Thursday, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren demanded documentation from the federal government ...
NPR speaks with Ramzi Kassem, a member of the legal team for Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk, about her detention and arguments ...
Edition's First Amendment series looks at the cost of speaking out or staying silent in the scientific community, amid ...
Meanwhile, a Tufts spokesperson has said Öztürk is a student “in good standing.” The only publicly known activity one might ...
Ozturk was one of four students who wrote an op-ed in the campus newspaper, The Tufts Daily, last year criticizing the ...
Yet that democratic expression has become a pretext for federal detention, and Öztürk’s arrest has chilled speech at Tufts and likely beyond. Tufts notes that faculty and students are already forgoing ...
Mansfield ’53 is the Kenan Research Professor of Government at Harvard. The best instance of free speech I’ve observed at Harvard came long ago when I was an undergraduate. I attended a debate ...
She says she is being targeted over an op-ed about Gaza that she wrote in the Tufts University ... Their cases raise concerns that more students could be targeted for their views. That alarm is found ...