- Justice for Journalists
covid-19

Irina Slavina

Affiliated media: Koza.Press, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: June 10, 2020

Attack type:

  • Attacks via judicial or economic means

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Telegram channel of Pavel Chikov

Location: Russia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Nizhny Novgorod

Additional information:

Police filed a report on the dissemination of fake news by Irina Slavina, the editor-in-chief of Koza.press. Her publication on 24 March allegedly contained “deliberately misleading information that one of the leaders of a sambo academy in Kstovo in Nizhny Novgorod oblast came into contact with tens of people, including participants of the academy, whilst infected with coronavirus”.

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