Anastasia Zakharova

Anastasia Zakharova is a lawyer at the Russian NGO Stichting Justice Initiative. She specialises in domestic violence, sexual violence cases and non-enforcement of judicial decisions concerning child custody cases. Anastasia holds a Bachelor's degree in Law and a Master's degree in Law from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and an LLM in Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham.

03/05/2021

Published by Anastasia Zakharova at 03/05/2021

Searching for balance: freedom of expression and the use of criminal measures to combat COVID-19 misinformation

During the COVID-19 pandemic, misinformation has become an important problem that threatens the health and even lives of people. But where is the line to be drawn between the fight against the spread of disinformation and the attack on free speech?