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More here and here. Posted by Laura at October 15, 2008 01:00 PMA Russian human rights lawyer whose clients have included leading Kremlin opponents said Tuesday that she had found poisonous mercury in her car in France and believed it may have been a warning to her.
Karinna Moskalenko told Ekho Moskvy, a radio station in Moscow, that the incident had prevented her from travelling to Moscow to take part in the trial of three suspected accomplices in the 2006 murder of the journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya. ...
A Strasbourg assistant prosecutor, Claude Palpacuer, said an investigation had been opened. He said Moskalenko and members of her family had been invited to undergo a medical examination to check if they had been contaminated. ...
Moskalenko's clients have included Mikhail Khodorkovsky, founder of a major oil company, Yukos, who is serving a prison sentence for fraud and tax evasion. He said his prosecution was punishment for challenging the Kremlin's power.
Prosecutors in that lawsuit applied to the Moscow Bar Association to have Moskalenko stripped of her right to practice as a lawyer, a step she said was designed to weaken Khodorkovsky's defense.