Brutal, the title makes it sound like she was making a profit or something but she just didn’t know to declare her research and that’s considered smuggling wtf
They’re definitely throwing the whole book at her. But there’s also a small nugget of a case here. Having been through customs a few times, I think it’s clear that biological materials should be declared. In a normal situation, the infraction would lead to a long wait in the back room, a stern warning, and maybe confiscated embryos. Not felony charges.
we had to do that for some mouse tissue and its so awkward to explain. yes they’re samples, no they’re not dangerous its just wax blocks, please let me go. Yes I already said they are mutant tissue samples but they’re not dangerous… 5 hours later still spinning in circles.
Decades ago, I was stuck in an Italian airport because they didn’t like my camera’s batteries (I had spent the day shooting images of the area for a TV program). I didn’t speak Italian, they didn’t speak any of my languages. We wasted an hour on this.
Customs can be weird sometimes. It’s nothing new.They wanted a bribe dude.
Billionaires, burning and pillaging: lol
Just standard Russophobic propaganda campaign. Amazing they still believe it works… The more Nato’s war against Russia goes badly, the more The Guardian will pivot to attacking China - just like ‘Daddy’.
