{"id":29542,"date":"2025-06-12T17:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T17:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29542"},"modified":"2025-06-12T17:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T17:23:17","slug":"russian-scientist-released-after-four-months-in-federal-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29542","title":{"rendered":"Russian Scientist Released After Four Months in Federal Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, still faces criminal charges for failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying in her suitcase.<\/p>\n

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Kseniia Petrova, the Russian scientist who spent four months in detention<\/a> after failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying into the country, was freed on bail from federal custody on Thursday by a magistrate judge in Boston.<\/p>\n

Since her detention at Boston\u2019s Logan Airport in February, Ms. Petrova has been transferred to detention centers in Vermont, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and, briefly, Rhode Island, before returning to Boston early Thursday. <\/p>\n

\u201cWelcome to Massachusetts,\u201d said the judge, Judith G. Dein. <\/p>\n

Ms. Petrova, who was handcuffed and dressed in an orange jumpsuit for the hearing, emerged from custody in a T-shirt that read \u201cHakuna matata,\u201d and embraced Marc Kirschner, the scientist who heads her laboratory at Harvard Medical School. <\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, it\u2019s hard to explain why someone like Kseniia had to be jailed for four months,\u201d <\/span>said Gregory Romanovsky, her immigration lawyer. He added that her release \u201cmeans that the legal process, even though it may be slow, is working, which is great.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms. Petrova\u2019s release is a victory, but a temporary one. She is still facing a two-pronged prosecution: The Trump administration began deportation proceedings against her in February, and around three months later, after she challenged the move in court, filed criminal smuggling charges<\/a> against her.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for the government have said they intend to deport Ms. Petrova 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.<\/p>\n

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Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, still faces criminal charges for failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying in her suitcase.Kseniia Petrova, the Russian scientist who spent four months in detention after failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying into the country, was freed on bail from federal custody on Thursday by a magistrate judge in Boston.Since her detention at Boston\u2019s Logan Airport in February, Ms. Petrova has been transferred to detention centers in Vermont, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and, briefly, Rhode Island, before returning to Boston early Thursday. \u201cWelcome to Massachusetts,\u201d said the judge, Judith G. Dein. Ms. Petrova, who was handcuffed and dressed in an orange jumpsuit for the hearing, emerged from custody in a T-shirt that read \u201cHakuna matata,\u201d and embraced Marc Kirschner, the scientist who heads her laboratory at Harvard Medical School. \u201cObviously, it\u2019s hard to explain why someone like Kseniia had to be jailed for four months,\u201d said Gregory Romanovsky, her immigration lawyer. He added that her release \u201cmeans that the legal process, even though it may be slow, is working, which is great.\u201dMs. Petrova\u2019s release is a victory, but a temporary one. She is still facing a two-pronged prosecution: The Trump administration began deportation proceedings against her in February, and around three months later, after she challenged the move in court, filed criminal smuggling charges against her.Lawyers for the government have said they intend to deport Ms. Petrova 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.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29544,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29545,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29542\/revisions\/29545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}