New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE...

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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice...rcna202180


Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

[Acer]

In the old days, we happily poached any Russian scientist who had an expertise we could leverage.

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I thought she was Ukrainian. Maybe I heard that wrong.

[Acer]

"30-year-old Russian-born Kseniia Petrova...fighting possible deportation to Russia, where she said she fears persecution and jail time over her protests against the war in Ukraine."

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Acer wrote:
"30-year-old Russian-born Kseniia Petrova...fighting possible deportation to Russia, where she said she fears persecution and jail time over her protests against the war in Ukraine."

Ah, that's probably where I picked up the Ukraine connection.

[Ca Bob]

Considering the case of the American athlete (or whoever she was) who was jailed because she had given a few dollars to some Ukrainian relief fund and then traveled to Russia, this person would obviously have a claim for amnesty.

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Ca Bob wrote:
Considering the case of the American athlete (or whoever she was) who was jailed because she had given a few dollars to some Ukrainian relief fund and then traveled to Russia, this person would obviously have a claim for amnesty.

It was a Russian amateur ballerina (whatever that means). People forget (and news outlets omit on purpose for more sensational news) the fact that US government has always stated that they cannot guarantee any efforts to protect or defend citizens who have dual citizenship while in the country of the other citizenship.

Does not invalidate the asylum issue, I am just providing a warning that I am always cognizant of when traveling to other countries - US citizenship potentially means nothing if you are in a country where you are also a citizen.

[DeusxMac]

Kseniia Petrova

"As a teenager, she supported and later joined the 2011–2013 Russian protests, opposing Putin's return to the presidency."

"She called for the impeachment of Russian president Vladimir Putin in the first few days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, joining protests against the invasion in Moscow. She was arrested for this on March 2, 2022 and was charged with an administrative violation, fined about $200 and released. Seeing that the news sources she relied on for objective information "closed immediately" and fearing the Russian border would also close, she fled the country two days later."

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Kseniia Petrova is a Russian born scientist who has protested against dictator Putin and supported Ukraine, and is a researcher at Harvard?

I definitely fear for her safety. Hopefully Harvard and Amnesty International and the ACLU get their best lawyers working on her behalf ASAP before she's on a plane back to the USSR and disappeared to the gulag where dictator Putin had Alexei Navalny sent...

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Hopefully she can find refuge in the UK or in EU. I don't think she'll be safe here in the US.

And while in UK/EU, she can continue her research.