Chemist Jailed In Russia For Giving Expert Opinion In Court

scibri writes "Think the imprisonment of Pussy Riot is a miscarriage of justice? Check out the story of their cellmate: Chemist Olga Nikolaevna Zelenina heads a laboratory at the Penza Agricultural Institute. She is an expert in the biology of hemp and poppy, and is a sought-after expert in legal cases involving narcotics produced from these plants. Last year, she was asked by defense lawyers to give her opinion in a case involving imported poppy seeds. The prosecutors didn't like her evidence though, and now she's in prison accused of complicity in organized drug trafficking."

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Re:There has to be more?

[Hatta]

Why does there have to be more? Even here in The Land of the Free (TM), we have people serving decades in prison for nothing more than growing plants. Don't underestimate the capability of any government for wanton brutality.