Court in the case of blocking "faces"

Protest march in Moscow 02.02.2014. Photo by Evgenia Okun

On May 6, at 12:00, the judge of the Tagansky district court Julia Smolina will consider the case of blocking the "faces". The editors appealed the actions of Roskomnadzor and the Prosecutor General on March 14, the day after blocking. The interests of the "faces" in court are represented by the legal analyst of the Association "Agora" Damir Gainutdinov.

Last week , the Prosecutor General’s Office presented a review of the lawsuit of the Grani . The supervisory authority indicates that the basis for blocking the entire site was the presence of a “significant part of illegal information in the total volume of materials”, and this applies not only to “faces”, but also to two other blocked sites - “daily journal” and Kasparov.ru. The same document says that the basis for blocking EJ.ru and Kasparov.ru was the presence of hyperlinks leading to the website of the Glass.ru. In prove the presence of such links, the Prosecutor General’s Office presented screenshots of blocked sites.

At the same time, in the very requirement for the blocking, which received on May 13 and attached to the case, prosecutors refer to specific materials: the information note "faces" about the detention of participants in the gathering in support of the swamp prisoners on March 6, the illustration of the note of Kasparov.ru with the Listen of the "Crimean Partisan" and the "swamp business" on ej.ru, in which "Articles and publications are placed and accumulated on protest promotions held in the Russian Federation in support of the defendants in the criminal case of riots in Bolotnaya Square in the city of Moscow 05/12/2012 (so in the text. - Ed.)."

The Prosecutor General’s office came to the conclusion that blocked sites "have a single thematic orientation." "One of the main goals of their functioning was the organization and coverage of mass measures carried out in violation of the order," the employees of the department say. “From the photo and video materials presented on the website, it was seen that during these measures there is a resistance to the legal requirements of the police, public order is violated and the threat of public security is created,” the document submitted to the court said. “As a result of the tendency of evaluating the actions of participants in unanctional shares, the audience of illegal acts is formed in the audience of illegal acts.” "The unlawful actions of the participants of the action (on Manezhnaya Square on March 6. - Ed.) Are presented as permissible in order to draw attention to the consideration of the iconic criminal case (" Swamp ". - Ed.) And are called to participate in such forms of will," the letter of the deputy prosecutor general Vladimir Malinovsky says. On the basis of this document, on March 13, the “facets”, Ej.ru and Kasparov.ru were blocked. At the same time, the Prosecutor General’s Office demanded to block the “daily magazine” page on the Facebook social network. On the same day, the blog of Alexei Navalny was blocked.

The “facets” claim that the blocking violates the constitution, the law on the media and the law “On Information”, which obliges the supervisory authority to indicate specific pages with unlawful content.

On April 11, the court examined the case of blocking the Navalny blog . The decision of the supervisory authorities was upheld.