Court sketches show two Kazakh men, charged by U.S. authorities on Wednesday with interfering in the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing.
The two students were described as college friends of the surviving suspect accused of being behind the April 15 attack.
But in Kazakhstan the pair are believed to be innocent.
In the city of Almaty, residents said the students had merely fallen in with the wrong crowd.
This woman says they happened to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong people.
The father of one of the Kazakh students, Dias Kadyrbayev, gave an interview last week saying his son was not involved.
He said his son had never fought anyone and had never been in touch with any radicals.
The two Kazakh students are accused, along with a U.S. citizen, of hiding fireworks and a backpack belonging to one of the Boston bombing suspects while the manhunt was underway.
Three people died and over 260 were injured in the
