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Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea J. Campbell filed an amicus brief in support of Harvard Medical School researcher #Kseniia #Petrova,
calling for her immediate release from a Louisiana detention facility.

The brief — filed on Monday in a Vermont District Court — condemned the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to detain Petrova.

Customs and Border Patrol officials arrested the Russian-born cancer researcher in February, after she allegedly failed to declare frog embryos at the Boston Logan International Airport.
In the brief, Campbell wrote that Petrova is “stuck in a nightmare of a situation.”

“Her visa was cancelled unlawfully,
she was denied admission to the United States based on the unlawful cancellation of that visa,
and she is incarcerated in Louisiana seemingly indefinitely based on an expedited removal order that was never signed,” the brief read.

“This situation is unjustifiable and unlawful.”

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/14/campbell-amicus-brief-petrova/