A court said a student from Turkey who was being held should come back to New England. This was so they could have meetings to see if her rights were respected and if she could be set free.

A court in New York with three judges said no to the government's request to wait. They decided to support Rumeysa Ozturk 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.

The court said that Ozturk's immigration court meetings started in Louisiana. These meetings are happening separately, and he can join them online.

A judge in Vermont said the 30-year-old student should come to the state for meetings. They wanted to see if she was kept illegally. Her lawyers say keeping her is against her rights, like the right to speak freely and have a fair trial.

She needed to be free from prison, and a meeting about this was planned for Friday. Another meeting was planned for May 22.

The government said the court in Louisiana can decide Mr Ozturk's case. The court stopped the move last week but did not agree to stop it for longer on Wednesday.

The higher court said the court in Vermont was the right place for Ozturk to ask to be free. It also said the government did not show they would be badly hurt. The court said it is more important for Ozturk to be at the meetings in Vermont than for the government to save time and money.

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

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

Immigration officers stopped Ozturk on a street in a town near Boston on March 25. They took her in a car to New Hampshire and Vermont. Then, they put her on a plane to a place where people are kept in Louisiana. Her student visa was cancelled a few days before, but she did not know this, her lawyers said.

Ozturk's lawyers first asked for her in Massachusetts. But they did not know where she was and could not talk to her for more than a day after she was arrested. Later, a judge in Massachusetts sent the case to Vermont.

The government says this change was not right, but the court disagrees.

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 sorry for what happened to Palestinians, share information about its money, and stop investing in companies connected to Israel.

A government paper said Ozturk lost her visa. This was because her actions could harm the U.S.'s relationships with other countries. She made it difficult for Jewish students and seemed to help a group called a terrorist organization. She also wrote an article with a group that was later not allowed at the university for a short time.

A government spokesperson said in March that they found Ozturk helped Hamas, which the U.S. says is a terrorist group.

Esha Bhandari, one of Ozturk's lawyers, said that nobody should be arrested and put in prison because of their political ideas. She said that Rumeysa Ozturk has been in prison for too long. Bhandari was happy that the court did not let the government keep Ozturk away from her community and her lawyers while she tries to get out of prison.