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In a detention hearing on Thurs, Nadine Pellegrini, an asst US attorney, said the govt agreed w/ #KseniiaPetrova’s defense on terms of release, allowing her to return home to her Boston apartment while awaiting her next court date.
Petrova, who was dressed in an orange jumpsuit for the hearing, emerged from custody in a T-shirt that read “Hakuna matata,” & embraced Marc Kirschner, the scientist who heads up her lab at #Harvard Medical School.
Lawyers for the government have said they intend to #deport #KseniiaPetrova to #Russia, a country she fled for political reasons in 2022. She has said that if she returns, she fears arrest or even death because of her #activism.
#Trump #immigration #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom
#KseniiaPetrova’s release is a victory, but a temporary one. She is still facing a 2-pronged prosecution: The #Trump admin began #deportation proceedings against her in Feb, & around 3 months later, after she challenged the move in court, filed #criminal *smuggling* charges against her.
#immigration #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom
#KseniiaPetrova, the Russian #scientist who spent 4 months in #detention after failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying into the country, was freed on bail from federal custody on Thurs by a magistrate judge in Boston.
Petrova, 31, left the…Courthouse surrounded by colleagues from the #Harvard laboratory where she has worked since 2023, investigating the earliest stages of cell division.
#Trump #immigration #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom
Russian #Scientist Released After 4 Months in Federal Custody
#KseniiaPetrova, a #Harvard #researcher, still faces #criminal charges for failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying in her suitcase.
#Trump #immigration #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/science/russian-scientist-harvard-release.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Per John Hawkinson:
“Chief Judge Christina Reiss (Vermont) found Harvard's Kseniia Petrova had raised a substantial claim and is ordered released on bail from ICE custody, a near total win for her habeas case today. She still has to contend with her criminal (smuggling) bail at a hearing next week.”
I wrote this letter to my representatives to urge them to apply pressure on DHS and the Trump Administration to end their unlawful detention of Kseniia Petrova.
Please consider contacting your representatives too. You may use the contents of my letter for that purpose if it helps.
Public Google doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Iudmo9fJl0-GKOeSIAH6obg_IBQw-zwHaOWLRv955E/edit?usp=sharing
#america #dictatorship #sovereignty #NationalSecurity #KseniiaPetrova
Added Kseniia Petrova's arrest to the timeline. Ms. Petrova is a young scientist at Harvard whom the Trump administration unlawfully arrested and attempted to deport to Russia because she criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.trumpisarussianasset.info/timeline/more/jailing-putins-critics-kseniia-petrova
#KseniiaPetrova #dictatorship #FirstAmendment #Harvard #TIARA
In #KseniiaPetrova’s case, “they put her in removal proceedings, & now are saying it is a #criminal case,” Dr. Eagly said. She described this as a “ratcheting up of the charges,” & atypical.
“It seems retaliatory, designed for a particular end,” she said.
Marisol Orihuela, a clinical professor at Yale Law School, said she could not recall seeing a case where criminal charges were brought against a person who had been in removal proceedings for an extended period.
#KseniiaPetrova’s lawyer, Gregory Romanovsky, has said he was “blindsided” by the #smuggling charge, …“Less than 2 hours after the Vermont judge set a hearing on Kseniia’s release, she was suddenly transferred from #ICE to #criminal custody. This is not a coincidence. It is an attempt by the government to justify its outrageous & legally indefensible position that this #scientist working for the US on cures for #cancer & #aging #research has somehow become a danger to the community.”
#law #Trump
#KseniiaPetrova has admitted that she failed to declare the samples, but her atty argued that this would ordinarily be treated as a minor infraction, punishable w/a fine. Instead, a #customs ofcl canceled Petrova’s #visa on the spot & initiated #deportation proceedings.
On Wed, a federal judge in VT quizzed govt attys about whether customs had the authority to cancel Petrova’s visa, & set a bail hearing for later this month, a sign that she was potentially moving toward releasing Petrova.
The #smuggling charges against #KseniiaPetrova came unexpectedly, & legal experts said the decision to bring #criminal charges at this stage in an #immigration case was unusual.
The charges were announced just as Petrova’s legal challenge to her #detention appeared to move in her favor. She was initially detained at the airport in Boston in Feb, after failing to declare frog embryos she was carrying into the country at the request of her #Harvard supervisor to use as scientific samples.
During the hearing, #KseniiaPetrova listened quietly as US Magistrate Judge Kayla D. McClusky read her the #criminal complaint in the *#smuggling* case, which carries a sentence of up to 20 years in #prison. “Yes, I understand,” she said.
After her attorney expressed Petrova’s desire to be transferred to Massachusetts for further proceedings, Judge McClusky agreed to allow the transfer back to Boston.
#KseniiaPetrova, a #Harvard researcher from #Russia who has been fighting #deportation proceedings since Feb, will now face #felony *#smuggling* charges in Massachusetts, a federal judge in Louisiana said on Thurs.
Petrova made a brief court appearance Thurs morning via video from a jail in Monroe, LA, near the #ICE detention center where she has been held for nearly 3 months.
#US Moves Russian #Scientist’s Case to #Criminal Court in Boston
For months, the #Harvard researcher #KseniiaPetrova has challenged efforts to #deport her to her native #Russia for a #customs violation. This week, the #Trump admin charged her with a criminal #felony.
#law #immigration #BrainDrain
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/science/petrova-scientist-harvard-russia-charges.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=36C5441F-C021-428E-BB0F-5B2B34E9E8BE
She's in #ICE detention. From 1,500 miles away, his piano lulls her to sleep.
#Harvard #scientist #KseniiaPetrova has been in #ICEdetention for 3 months. She is one of a growing number of non-criminal #immigrants detained by ICE since Donald Trump took office.
#KseniiaPetrova didn’t smuggle poison. She didn’t carry secrets. She brought frog embryos. For science. ...
This isn’t border security. This is academic sabotage. Retaliation rubber-stamped in triplicate.
And Kseniia Petrova? She’s still locked up. Because frog embryos scare this regime more than facts.
All is not complete shit today! They still need to free #KilmarAbregoGarcia, #rumeysa_ozturk, #MahmoudKhalil, #kseniiapetrova and every other person sent to that hellhole in El Salvador, though.
She Worked in a #Harvard Lab to Reverse #Aging , Until #ICE Jailed Her
President Trump’s #immigration crackdown ensnared #KseniiaPetrova, a scientist who fled #Russia after protesting its invasion of #Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.
#trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/science/russian-scientist-ice-detained-harvard.html
You're kidding right? Her work on cells and aging is a threat to US security? I guess that's true if it means longer lives for the fascists in charge.
"Immigration and Customs Enforcement has twice refused her lawyer’s petition for parole, contending that she is a flight risk and a threat to U.S. security."
You're kidding right? Her work on cells and aging is indeed a threat to US security? I guess that's true if it means longer lives for the fascists in charge.
"Immigration and Customs Enforcement has twice refused her lawyer’s petition for parole, contending that she is a flight risk and a threat to U.S. security."
She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her
President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled #Russia after protesting its invasion of #Ukraine.
She fears arrest if she is deported there.
Free #KseniiaPetrova
Again, if you think you and those you care about are safe from this, you are wrong. #kseniiapetrova