Demonstrators stand outside the federal courthouse after the first day of a trial in a lawsuit filed by the American Association of University Professors and others, which challenges the U.S. President Donald Trump administration's arrest and deportation of pro-Palestinian campus activists, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., July 7, 2025. "The administration’s ideological deportations dishonor the First Amendment and democracy," Ramya Krishnan, a lawyer for the plaintiffs at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said in a statement. Since then, the administration has canceled visas of hundreds of students and scholars and ordered the arrest of some, including Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University student who was taken into custody in Massachusetts by masked and plainclothes agents after co-writing an opinion piece criticizing her school's response to Israel's war in Gaza.
Published at: 2025-09-30 21:37:15
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