New York's federal appeals court ordered the Trump administration to transfer Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Oztürk to continue immigration detention in the state from Louisiana to Vermont, where the judge held the judge. Decide whether to bail her.

The Trump administration has a week to comply with the transfer, a panel of three judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rule.

"Vermont is likely to be the appropriate place to rule on Öztürk's habeas petition because she was physically in Vermont when she submitted it," the panel wrote in its ruling.

Öztürk was detained in Federal Facilities in Louisiana Six federal plainclothes immigration agents were arrested on March 25 after being arrested on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. Department of Homeland Security Later accused her Participate in “In Support of Hamas Activities.” She has not been charged with any crime. Her lawyers said she was violated by her rights to freedom of speech and due process and the government showed no evidence that she supported terrorism.

“No one should be arrested and locked in their political views,” said Esha Bhandari of ACLU. “We are grateful for the court’s refusal to reject the government’s attempt to isolate her from the community and legal counsel, and she filed a release case.”

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment.

Last year, she wrote an opinion paper in a college paper criticizing the school for handling some resolutions adopted by the Senate in the Israel-Hamas war, including A call on university presidents to recognize and condemn “Genocide in Gaza.”

In court documents, the Trump administration claimed that ICE sent Öztürk and other students to Louisiana because there was not enough room for detention in the arrested immigration facilities.

But the federal judge in Massachusetts Found out earlier last month Maine has detention beds, and Maine is closer to Vermont than Louisiana.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling on Wednesday was a victory for Öztürk – legal experts say deportation is more challenging as the Fifth Circuit will take into account one of the most conservative courts in the United States.

Her lawyer raised health concerns, saying Öztürk's asthma attack had worsened.

She is one of them Several international students The arrest by the Trump administration is part of a crackdown on foreign students expressing the administration's claimed anti-Semitism views.

A federal judge in Vermont will hold a bail hearing on Öztürk on Friday.