A court said on Wednesday that a student from Turkey who is being held in Louisiana must return to New England. This is so the court can decide if her rights were not respected and if she should be allowed to go free.

Three judges in New York said no to the government's request to wait. They decided that Rumeysa Ozturk was right after a meeting on Tuesday. Ozturk has been in Louisiana for more than six weeks. This is because of an article she wrote with someone else last year. The article said the school did not react well to the fighting in Gaza.

The court said Ozturk must go to ICE in Vermont by May 14.

Ozturk's immigration court case started in Louisiana. It is happening separately. The court said Ozturk can join the case from far away.

A judge in Vermont said the 30-year-old student must come to the state. The judge will decide if she was kept illegally. Her lawyers say keeping her is against her rights, like being able to speak freely and having a fair process.

The first deadline was May 1. She had a meeting about getting bail in Burlington on Friday, and another meeting on May 22.

The government did not agree with that decision. They said the immigration court in Louisiana should handle Ozturk's case. Last week, the court stopped the plan to move Ozturk. They did this while they thought about the government's urgent request. But on Wednesday, the court did not agree to wait longer.

The higher court said the Vermont court was the right place to hear Ozturk's case.

The government says it would be hard for Ozturk to be at her immigration meetings in Louisiana from far away. But the government agrees that Ozturk can join removal meetings from far away.

Someone sent an email to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to ask for their opinion.

On March 25, immigration police stopped Ozturk in a Boston suburb. They took her by car to New Hampshire and Vermont. Then they put her on a plane to a center in Basile, Louisiana. Her student visa was cancelled a few days before, but her lawyers said she did not know.

Ozturk's lawyers tried to help her in Massachusetts, but they could not find her or talk to her for more than a day after she was caught. Later, a judge in Massachusetts sent the case to Vermont.

The appeals court said the government was wrong to say the transfer was not right.

Last year, Ozturk and three other students wrote an article in the school newspaper. They said the university did not listen to students who wanted Tufts to say that "Palestinians are being killed." The students also asked Tufts to show where it puts its money and stop working with companies connected to Israel.

A government paper said Ozturk could not have her visa anymore. This was because her actions might hurt the U.S. and other countries. The paper said her actions might make things difficult for Jewish students and show support for a group called a terrorist group. She also wrote an article with a group that was not allowed on campus for a time.

Someone from the government said in March that Ozturk helped Hamas. Hamas is a group that the U.S. calls a terrorist group. They didn't show proof.

Esha Bhandari, a lawyer for Ozturk, said: "It is wrong to put people in prison for their political ideas. Rumeysa Ozturk has been in prison for too long. We are happy the court did not let the government keep her away from other people and her lawyers while she tries to get free."