00:00What we heard from the court today is what we have been saying for weeks and
00:11what courts have continued to repeat up and down through the litigation of this
00:15case thus far. There's absolutely no evidence that justifies detaining Ms.
00:21Ozturk for a single day, let alone the six and a half weeks that she has been
00:27detained because she wrote a single op-ed in her student newspaper exercising her
00:32First Amendment right to express an opinion. One of the dangers of what we
00:36are seeing in the government's behavior in this case is the very strong message
00:40it sends to people who are watching that you can be punished by your speech and
00:45what we heard from the court today was confirmation that that is not what we do
00:50in this country.
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