Ozturk was one of four students who wrote an op-ed in the campus newspaper, The Tufts Daily, last year criticizing the university’s response to student activists demanding that Tufts “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide,” disclose its investments and divest from companies with ties to Israel.

An appeals court in New York put a Tufts student’s transfer from a Louisiana detention center to Vermont on hold Monday. William Sessions, a U.S. district judge in Vermont, ordered last week that the Trump administration transfer Rumeysa Ozturk by May 1.

The Turkish national's return will be delayed until at least May 6 to allow for a government appeal, a federal judge ruled Monday.