Case of blocking "faces": appeal

On September 2 at 14:30, the Moscow City Court will consider the appeal of the editorial office of the "faces" for blocking the site. Branes.ru are blocked on the Russian terrorism of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office on March 13. The interests of our publication in court are represented by Damir Gainutdinov from the Association "Agora".

The “facets” became the first media registered media, blocked according to the “Lugovo law” for “calls to participate in events conducted in violation of public order”. Together with the "faces", hedgehog, Kasparov.ru and the blog of Alexei Navalny were blocked. All these sites tried to challenge the lock in court, all four claims were rejected by the courts of first instance , and the appeal has already been rejected on Navalny. The leader of the Pirate Party Pavel Radudov and the reader of the "faces" from Kazan , Bulat Mukhamedzhanov , also tried to challenge the lock in court.

On May 6, the judge of the Tagan court, Julia Smolina, rejected the lawsuit of the Grana to the Prosecutor General and Roskomnadzor . She indicated that she considers the lock justified , since she completely trusts the conclusions of the prosecutor's office. The decision says that the court trusts the conclusion of the prosecutor T. Abregov, "since the study was conducted by an authorized specialist (the prosecutor himself. - Ed.), Patients in this field, based on the results of a reasonable study of the presented material." According to Judge Smolina, "this conclusion is consistent with the content of materials posted on the Internet." Meanwhile, at the hearing, representatives of the "faces" failed to receive answers to questions about the qualification of the prosecutor Abregov, the subject and the methodology of the study conducted by him.

Following the Prosecutor General’s office, the court referred to the only specific publication - a note on the detention of participants in the gathering in defense of Bolotnikov on March 6. “The specified article provides the circumstances of the detention of participants in the inconsistent public event - the Strategy -6 campaign, which consists in public speaking groups of persons every 6th day of the month in support of the defendants in the criminal case in the city of Moscow on May 6, 2012,” Smolina notes. “The illegal actions of the participants in the specified action are presented in order to attract attention to the consideration of the criminal case and Call to participate in such forms of will. "

The “facets” insisted that under the law “On Information”, supervisory authorities are required to indicate specific materials, after the deletion of which the site should be unlocked. Representatives of the Prosecutor General and Roskomnazdor objected that the prosecutor’s office could evaluate the “totality of the context” of the Informresurs, and Smolina agreed with them. "The arguments of representatives of the applicants about the absence ... information about the pages of the site that allow you to identify information recognized as prohibited for distribution cannot be the basis for satisfying the requirements of the applicants, since the notifications directed to the media (in fact, the notification received the edges, but the hosting provider. - ed.) Filled the requirements of the current legislation," the court’s decision said.