Canada’s Globe and Mail editorial page has come out in defense of Karinna Moskalenko. There is also interesting coverage in Time Magazine.

Silencing critics Russia’s leaders are almost certainly up to their old tricks. Last week Karinna Moskalenko, a human rights lawyer who represents the family of Anna Politkovskaya, the crusading journalist and Kremlin foe gunned down in 2006, was admitted to a French hospital with mercury poisoning after the toxic metal was found in her car. Her illness just happened to prevent Ms. Moskalenko from attending the start of pretrial hearings into Ms. Politkovskaya’s death in Moscow.