A federal judge ordered the government to release a Tufts University graduate student who was grabbed off the street in late March and detained for co-writing an opinion piece in a student newspaper criticizing the war in Gaza.

Ozturk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts ... because, frankly, I don’t find that she poses any risk of flight,” the judge ruled.

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.