www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/s...
With my apologies I’m out of NYT unlocks for the month; Harvard research scientist
#KseniiaPetrova is out on bail following her appearance before a Boston magistrate judge.
Ms Petrova still faces bogus smuggling charges & discriminatory deportation proceedings.
#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 […]
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 […]
Judge Says Government Should Release Russian Scientist www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/s...
District Court chief #JudgeChristinaReiss (VT) has ordered the release of Harvard science researcher #KseniiaPetrova from #ICE detainment.
This does not guarantee release; bogus criminal case is entangled here.
I wrote this letter to my representatives requesting an end to the 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.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#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.
#KseniiaPetrova #FreedomOfSpeech #science #dictatorship #TIARA
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/s...
#KseniiaPetrova is now facing BS felony charges. Her criminal case (& she) will be moved to Boston.
This is how academic science researchers into a cure for cancer are treated in the U.S.
🙆🏻♀️😅😎✊😊
Nice to learn a little bit of amplifying reached someone.
And I wholeheartedly agree, this @ssteingraber1.bsky.social 🧵 mesmerizes well. So much more than edutainment.
Am glad to have found an update on #KseniiaPetrova who, in Feb, was 1 of the 1st researchers swiped up by #ICE post Jan20th.
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 […]
#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 […]
#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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
#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 […]
#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 […]
#KseniiaPetrova
Federal charges of snuggling. Now has another court date. Fears going back to Russia.
Hopes to go to #France instead.
Fucking #ICEthugs.
Fucking #DickTator
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
The hearing concluded with a bail hearing tentatively set for 5/28. The judge said she would be taking the government's motion to dismiss under advisement. #KseniiaPetrova #Russia #Ukraine
A Zoom hearing for #KseniiaPetrova, the #Harvard scientist detained for a customs violation at Logan in February, is happening now. Many believe Kseniia is being targeted for her opposition to the war in #Ukraine. The meeting link is here: bit.ly/3YMCtHb
Meeting ID: 161 125 8249
Passcode: 759086
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...
#KseniiaPetrova
This is by #KseniiaPetrova, the Harvard researcher who was scooped up and imprisoned for a minor Customs infraction. They might deport her -- not to France where her flight originated, but to her native Russia where she'd be in danger from that guy who poisons people for opposing him.
What a heart-rending, beautiful, enraging piece by #KseniiaPetrova as told to #AlexEllerbeck at the @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
Harvard scientist #KseniiaPetrova has been in #ICE detention for 3 months with NO Criminal Record She is one of a growing number of non-criminal immigrants detained by ICE since Trump took office.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
#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 […]
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.
www.masslive.com/politics/202...
Leave the scientists alone!
Fear is spreading among some #foreign-born #academics and #scientists working in the #US after #Russian-born #scientist #KseniiaPetrova, a #researcher at #HarvardMedicalSchool, was #detained earlier this year when returning from #France and had her #visa canceled.
Between this and the plummeting tourism numbers is America tired of winning yet?? 🤷🏾♂️
#KseniiaPetrova #ICE
