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.”

A district court judge ordered the Tufts Ph.D. student to be released on bail after more than six weeks in detention for merely writing an op-ed in her student newspaper.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the immediate release of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University who had been held for six weeks in an immigration detention center, ruling that her arrest and continued confinement were unlawful and raised serious constitutional concerns.