Thank you so much for being here,” Öztürk said. "I really appreciate you being here, and thanks so much for all the support and love.”

Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk was released from a Louisiana detention center Friday, six weeks after masked federal agents took her into custody amid the Trump administration’s effort to deport noncitizens who have protested against the war in Gaza.

Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts doctoral student detained by ICE in Somerville earlier this year, will be released on bail as her immigration case is pending, a federal judge ruled Friday. The American Civil Liberties Union confirmed the news Friday afternoon.