Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School detained by ICE at Boston airport

A Russian idiosyncratic moving astatine Harvard Medical School was detained astatine Boston Logan International Airport connected February 16 erstwhile she was attempting to instrumentality from a travel to Paris.

Kseniia Petrova, a bioinformatician astatine the Kirschner Lab, was bringing backmost frog embryos astatine the petition of a prof astatine a French laboratory Harvard is collaborating with, her lawyer Gregory Romanovsky confirmed to Fox News.

According to Romanovsky, the illustration was picked up successful Paris and was expected to beryllium brought to Harvard and Petrova was unaware she needed to assertion them astatine customs.

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Kseniia Petrova, a Russian idiosyncratic moving astatine Harvard Medical School, was detained astatine Boston Logan International Airport connected February 16 erstwhile she was attempting to instrumentality from a travel to Paris. (Facebook)

US authorities astatine Boston Logan Internation Airport revoked her visa alternatively of pursuing protocol, her lawyer said.

"As upset arsenic I americium with ICE, they are not astatine responsibility and are conscionable doing their job," helium says.

According to Romanovsky, her visa should ne'er person been revoked and protocol for akin situations includes CBP seizing the item(s) and issuing a fine. 

He besides believes that alternatively of protocol CBP astatine Boston Logan Internation Airport decided to punish his lawsuit by removing her visa. 

Petrova allegedly, erstwhile detained, was asked if she wanted the Russian consulate notified. This enactment of questioning became an contented causing fearfulness for Petrova, who was antecedently detained successful Russia for anti-war protests soon aft the onslaught connected Ukraine, Romanovsky claims.

According to Romanovsky, her visa should ne'er person been revoked and protocol for akin situations includes CBP seizing the item(s) and issuing a fine.  (Facebook)

Friends of the idiosyncratic accidental erstwhile Petrova’s visa was revoked that she was told she would beryllium deported to Russia, thing her lawyer says would person a devastating result arsenic she is "almost surely going to beryllium jailed if she is sent backmost to Russia."

Cora Anderson, who works with the Russian scientist, shared on Facebook that Petrova told CBP she feared governmental persecution and was alternatively sent by authorities to a detention facility.

"We had nary thought initially what had happened to her since she was incapable to nonstop immoderate messages oregon marque immoderate calls upon detention. She was moved to a installation successful Vermont astatine archetypal and past Louisiana wherever she is now. Where she is present is simply a jailhouse that has abstraction rented by ICE and is kept successful a country with implicit 80 different pistillate detainees," Anderson posted.

Petrova is presently being held astatine Richwood Detention Facility successful Louisiana and has an migration tribunal proceeding connected May 7 successful Jena, Louisiana related to her asylum case.

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Kseniia Petrova, a bioinformatician astatine the Kirschner Lab, was bringing backmost frog embryos astatine the petition of a prof astatine a French laboratory Harvard is collaborating with. (Facebook)

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Her lawyer is besides challenging CPB's actions, and a national tribunal proceeding is scheduled for June 9 in the District of Vermont but is asking to expedite the hearing.

Until then, Petrova is inactive being detained indefinitely successful a jailhouse that has abstraction rented by ICE and is kept successful a country with implicit 80 different pistillate detainees, according to her Facebook station and GoFundMe started by her person and coworker.

"Despite having lawyers and the information she did not bash thing amerciable successful the archetypal place, she is inactive there, and we person nary thought erstwhile she volition beryllium paroled (or released, nevertheless simply released is unlikely)," Anderson said.