A 30-year-old Harvard researcher from Russia has been held for more than a month at a private detention center in Louisiana where federal immigration officers are sending a growing number of international students with lives here suddenly in jeopardy.

The woman is being held in a Louisiana detention facility while waiting for her next hearing. The post A Harvard scientist from Russia has been detained by ICE since February for failing to declare frog embryos appeared first on Boston.

Kseniia Petrova's attorney said her previous arrest in Russia and social media activity "will almost certainly ensure a nice, hefty jail sentence for her" if she is deported back.