“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.

A federal judge in Vermont on Friday ordered that Rumeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University student detained by immigration agents in March, be released from ICE custody.

“Öztürk is free to return to her home in Massachusetts. She’s also free to travel to Massachusetts and Vermont as she sees fit, and I am not going to put a travel restriction on her, because, frankly, I don’t find that she poses any risk of flight,” Judge William K. Sessions III said.

The government was ordered to immediately release her, pending further proceedings on the merits of her habeas petition, the judge said.

Öztürk appeared virtually, with her attorney Mahsa Khanbabai, from the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center.