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A PhD student was snatched by masked officers in broad daylight. Then she was flown 1,500 miles away
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Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk was walking alone Tuesday night to meet friends at a dinner.
Six plainclothes officers suddenly encircled her on the street near her apartment in Somerville , Massachusetts .
She shrieked in fear when an officer in a hooded sweatshirt and hat grabbed her by the wrists.
The next morning , she was flown more than 1,500 miles away to a staging facility in Alexandria , Louisiana .
Her lawyers say she is unfairly being punished for speaking out in favor of Palestinian rights.
Rumeysa Ozturk wrote an op-ed criticizing Tufts ' response to a student government group’s call for the university to divest from companies with ties to Israel because of the conflict in Gaza .
Rubio suggests without evidence she was involved in disruptive student protests over the conflict, Rubio says.
Tufts President Sunil Kumar says he shared concerns of her arrest and calls it “disturbing”.
CNN ’s Andy Rose and Yash Roy contributed to this report. For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at CNN.com .
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