Russian Harvard Scientist Faces Criminal Smuggling Charge (1)

A Russian researcher at Harvard Medical School who has been detained by US immigration authorities since February was charged with illegally smuggling frog embryos in her luggage on a plane flight.

The arrest of Kseniia Petrova Wednesday on a federal criminal charge that carries up to 20 years in prison comes amid the Trump administration’s broader immigration crackdown targeting international students and its intensifying standoff with Harvard, the oldest and richest US university.

Petrova, 31, has been held in custody since mid-February, when customs agents detained her at Boston’s Logan Airport on her return from France because she failed to ...