Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts ... because, frankly, I don’t find that she poses any risk of flight,” the judge ruled.

The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, had published an essay about the war in Gaza. Immigration agents arrested her and sent her to a Louisiana detention center to await deportation proceedings.

A federal judge in Vermont has released on bail a Turkish Tufts University student detained in a Louisiana immigration center more than six weeks after she was arrested while walking along a street in a Boston suburb.