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Cy Neff

Russian scientist held in Ice jail charged with smuggling frog embryos into US

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Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist working at Harvard. Photograph: Polina Pugacheva/AP

A Harvard scientist who has been held in US immigration detention for months was charged on Wednesday with smuggling frog embryos into the United States, and likely faces deportation.

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist and research associate working at Harvard University, was originally detained by immigration officials in February after attempting to enter the United States at Boston Logan international airport.

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