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The ACLU, together with Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts and Goulston & Storrs, finalized a settlement with the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department in a civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of the estate of Madelyn Linsenmeir.
Republishing these articles is a victory for free speech and public health. The government can’t censor medical research solely because it disfavors certain viewpoints.
More than six weeks after the Trump administration arrested and detained her because of an op-ed, a federal court ordered the release of Rümeysa Öztürk.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the government to comply with a lower court’s ruling to move Ms. Öztürk from a Louisiana detention center to a facility in Vermont.
It is important that every person has the ability to live and travel safely, and we will continue to fight to rescind this unlawful policy to make sure that this relief extends to everyone.
We are ready to argue her case before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and we won’t stop fighting until she is free.