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Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk returned to Boston after six weeks in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. GBH’s immigration reporter, Sarah Betancourt, has been following the case since her detention, through multiple court cases. Today we have a rundown of the story so far and what our newsroom will follow going forward.

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Fabian Schmidt, a Green Card holder from New Hampshire who immigration officials detained at Logan Airport almost two months ago, has been released. “FABIAN IS FREE and HOME!!!!” his partner Bhavani Hodgkins wrote on Facebook.

Schmidt, who was born in Germany and has lived in the U.S. legally since 2007, was detained coming back from a trip to Luxembourg. His mother said he was “violently interrogated” at Logan: stripped naked, put in a cold shower, and immigration agents attempted to coerce him into giving up his Green Card.

A nonprofit grocery store with locations in Boston, Cambridge and Salem announced it will close because of rising costs and federal cuts to hunger programs. The Daily Table has had more than 3 million customers in its decade of operation.

“They counted on us for truly affordable fresh fruits and vegetables — and not just fresh fruits, vegetables, but prepared meals, too,” said Doug Rauch, Daily Table’s founder and board chair. Now elected officials in Boston said they’re trying to help with fundraising and finding new jobs for laid off workers. 

Catholics in Massachusetts are looking to Pope Leo XIV’s record to try and divine what his papal tenure will look like. Myra Russell, a survivor of clergy abuse who now leads a Boston-based women’s group for the Survivor Network of those Abused by Priests, pointed to a case in which the now-pope allowed a priest accused of abusing children to stay at an Augustinian friary in Chicago in 2000. “It’s hard to have hope from a place that continues to justify abuse,” Russell said.

Attorney Mitchell Garabedian, who represented clergy sexual abuse survivors, said he hopes the new pope can address the church’s history effectively. “The Catholic Church has to understand that the safety of innocent children cannot be sacrificed for an outdated and inexcusable need to protect the reputation of the Catholic Church,” he said.

Congressman Stephen Lynch of South Boston has a 2026 primary challenger: Patrick Roath, an attorney and voting rights advocate. Roath said he is running to “defend our democracy” against President Donald Trump. He also said he wants to work on the costs of housing, education, health care and child care — and term limits for U.S. House representatives.

“We are not seeing leadership on these issues right now,” Roath said. “The reality is that the approach to governing that might have made sense 25 or 30 years ago is not necessarily suited to today’s challenges. That needs to change.” Lynch was first elected in 2001. “Congressman Lynch is focused on the work he was elected to do, particularly in his capacity on the oversight committee,” Lynch campaign spokesman Scott Ferson said.

Rümeysa Öztürk lands at Logan: 'I have faith in the American system of justice’

After more than six weeks in a detention center in Louisiana, Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk landed back in Boston Saturday night and spoke about having hope.

“America is the greatest democracy in the world, and I believe in those values that we share. I have faith in the American system of justice,” she said.

Here’s a summary of what led up to that moment and what comes next:

Federal officials revoked Öztürk’s visa without notifying her, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in plainclothes detained her on a Somerville street in late March. Her name had appeared on a website tracking protestors after she co-wrote an op-ed in the Tufts Daily student newspaper asking the university to divest from Israeli companies and to call the war in Gaza a genocide. Government officials have not accused her of crimes.

ICE agents took Öztürk out of Massachusetts, made a stop in Vermont, and then moved her to a detention center in Louisiana, where she has said she was kept in dirty and crowded conditions with other detained women and not given proper access to her asthma medication.

In the meantime, multiple cases worked their way through multiple courts. In Vermont, where she was briefly taken in the journey between Somerville and Louisiana, her attorneys filed a habeas corpus petition arguing that her detention was not lawful. After a ruling from a federal judge there and an appeal from the Department of Justice, a panel of appellate court judges last week ruled that the government should release her on bail while her immigration and habeas corpus cases continue.

Two days later, authorities in Louisiana released her. 

After her release, Öztürk said her friends and colleagues got her through it. Her advisor sent her a copy of her doctoral dissertation proposal, and she said she also got “so much love and comforting words” from letters of support.

“This has been a very difficult time for me, for my community, for my community at Tufts, [in] Turkey, but I’m so grateful for all the support, kindness, and care,” Öztürk said.

While she is out of custody, Öztürk’s immigration court case and her habeas corpus case will continue.

“Rümeysa’s petition raised serious First Amendment concerns, serious due process concerns, and those are the concerns that we’re going to be litigating when we’re back before the court,” said one of her attorneys, Jessie Rossman, litigation director for the ACLU of Massachusetts.

Read Sarah Betancourt’s full reporting here.