{"id":163465,"date":"2025-03-29T17:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T17:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/som2nynetwork.com\/activist\/cair-chicago-condemns-ice-detention-of-turkish-graduate-student-amid-crackdown-on-pro-palestinian-voices-cair-chicago\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T17:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T17:44:16","slug":"cair-chicago-condemns-ice-detention-of-turkish-graduate-student-amid-crackdown-on-pro-palestinian-voices-cair-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/som2nynetwork.com\/?p=163465","title":{"rendered":"CAIR-Chicago Condemns ICE Detention of Turkish Graduate Student Amid Crackdown on Pro-Palestinian Voices \u2014 CAIR-Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5aeb7bb8e2ccd14dfc3d03ff\/1743109614391-OBZAK1NT8AT7FXTA64QV\/IMG_8456.jpg?format=1500w\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">30-year-old Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University doctoral student, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wttw.com\/2025\/03\/27\/chicago-muslim-civil-rights-group-condemns-trump-s-immigration-crackdown-pro-palestinian\" target=\"_blank\">was apprehended while walking in a Boston suburb<\/a>. Now held in an ICE detention center in Louisiana, her case raises serious concerns about politically motivated targeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><em>&#8220;That to us is very startling. It is something that we as Americans cannot stand by and watch without objecting to it, and we really call on our elected officials to stand up for what America is all about.&#8221;<\/em> \u2014 <strong>Ahmed Rehab, CAIR-Chicago Executive<\/strong> Director<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">At our press conference held on March 27, 2025, we warned of the growing crackdown on pro-Palestinian students and activists. <strong>We must defend the right to free speech.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>\ud83d\udcfa Watch the full press conference: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_BuGinwvuMI\"><strong>https:\/\/youtu.be\/_BuGinwvuMI<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.agent=\"plsquarespace\";n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init', '515061355751160');fbq('track', \"PageView\");<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30-year-old Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University doctoral student, was apprehended while walking in a Boston suburb. Now held in an ICE detention center in Louisiana, her case raises serious concerns about politically motivated targeting. &#8220;That to us is very startling. It is something that we as Americans cannot stand by and watch without objecting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12022],"tags":[13859,34342,37808,23179,21124,428,58692,6763,25351,16924],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-163465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activist","tag-cairchicago","tag-condemns","tag-crackdown","tag-detention","tag-graduate","tag-ice","tag-propalestinian","tag-student","tag-turkish","tag-voices"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CAIR-Chicago Condemns ICE Detention of Turkish Graduate Student Amid Crackdown on Pro-Palestinian Voices \u2014 CAIR-Chicago - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/som2nynetwork.com\/?p=163465\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CAIR-Chicago Condemns ICE Detention of Turkish Graduate Student Amid Crackdown on Pro-Palestinian Voices \u2014 CAIR-Chicago - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"30-year-old Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University doctoral student, was apprehended while walking in a Boston suburb. 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