MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent Russian human rights lawyer says she and her children are ill after a suspicious substance was found in their car in France.
The incident has kept Karinna Moskalenko away from preliminary hearings Wednesday at a Moscow court in the trial of four men in connection with the 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Moskalenko is a lawyer for Politkovskaya's family and for imprisoned former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. She also represents Russians pressing claims against the government at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
Moskalenko told Russia's Ekho Moskvy radio station that her husband found a large amount of a mercury-like liquid in the car they use in Strasbourg.
Rights groups have voiced concern.
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