SOMERVILLE, Mass. (AP) — A Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation, her lawyer said Wednesday.

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen and a doctoral student at Tufts, wrote an opinion essay for her school newspaper The Tufts Daily in late March. She, along with three other students, penned the piece criticizing university leaders for their response to its community union Senate passing resolutions demanding Tufts "acknowledge the Palestinian genocide,

A Turkish student attending Tufts University was arrested by US immigration officials in Massachusetts and is being held in detention in Louisiana. Rumeysa Ozturk was detained on Tuesday outside Boston,