Russian activist blames officials for threats

MOSCOW (AP) — A pregnant Russian human rights researcher said Thursday she had received anonymous text messages threatening her life and that of her child, which she believes are linked to her work in the troubled North Caucasus region.

Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch said she suspected that security officials were bugging her telephone and making the threats after she arranged a business trip to Dagestan, a mostly Muslim province of North Caucasus, last week. The unknown authors wrote she would go through “an uneasy ‘birth'” and vowed to come after her in Moscow.