A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England for hearings to determine whether her rights were violated and if she should be released.

Federal appeals court judges in New York ruled that a Tufts graduate student detained by ICE must be sent to Vermont and not be held in a detention center in Louisiana.

Federal immigration agents detained Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student from Turkey, on the street near her home in Massachusetts.