10/03/2025

U.S. Used a Transnational Crime Unit to Secretly Target Campus Protesters

"Tiger teams" tracked pro-Palestinian protesters at college campuses

When Rumeysa Ozturk was grabbed by masked federal agents outside her Massachusetts home in March, the video of the Turkish graduate student being handcuffed and hustled into an unmarked vehicle spread around the world.

A federal trial that ended Tuesday revealed for the first time the story behind the images, showing how the government assigned a special team to target Ozturk and other pro-Palestinian activists, laying the groundwork for their highly unusual arrests.

Ozturk had committed no crime, yet her detention was a priority for the new Trump administration.

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