More than seven thousand people decided to join the lawsuit against the FSB due to Telegram

More than seven thousand people decided to participate in the Battle of Telegram campaign and join the collective lawsuit against the FSB and Roskomnadzor in connection with the fine imposed on the messenger. This was reported on the website of Roskomvoboda.

"We are going to defend our right to encrypt in all legal ways. Without building illusions, we will appeal the unlawful requirements of the FSB in Russian courts, eager to get the opportunity to decrypt the personal messages of any user, as well as group chats. We will go to the end, contacting every instance of national and international courts, including the ECHR and Venice Commission of the European Council, European. Demanding the protection of our digital rights from the arbitrariness of the Russian special services, ”said Roskomskvobod.

Everyone still has the opportunity to join the campaign at the Telegram.vs.fsb.tude site specially created for this. "With the help of the" Battle for Telegram "campaign, any user can connect to the struggle for the digital rights and freedoms of Russians," the report said. “The more we are, the more chances to win.”

On October 16, the world judge of the 383rd section of the Meshchansky district of Moscow Julia Danilchik fined Telegram for 800 thousand rubles in part 2.1 of Article 13.31 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (non-fulfillment by the organizer of the dissemination of information, the obligation to provide information to decode electronic messages). On December 12, the judge of the Meshchansky district court Julia Mordvina confirmed this decision .

The reason for the initiation of the case was the refusal of Telegram to provide the FSB with the key encryption keys. Meanwhile, the head of the team of the messenger developers Pavel Durov noted that the requirements of the security forces not only contradict Article 23 of the Constitution, guaranteeing the confidentiality of correspondence, but also unrealized.

On October 25, journalists Oleg Kashin and Alexander Poyshchev filed a lawsuit against a special service . “Poyshchev and I are filing lawsuits against the FSB, objecting to the requirement to provide the correspondence encryption keys. We believe that this affects our right to confidential communication with sources of information,” Kashin said. “Being the leading popular Telegram channels, I am protecting this new original media and I have become an important phenomenon in Russia.” Lawyers of the Human Rights Group "Agora" agreed to represent journalists in court.

On December 14, Agora, in connection with the decision of the fine imposed on Telegram, turned to the UN specialist on issues of the right to freedom of speech to David Kaye. The document contained a request to recommend to the Russian government "to refrain from expanding the practice of arbitrary interference in citizens' right to freedom of expression, privacy and anonymity, including online." Such actions of Russia, the appeal said, contradict the resolutions of the UN General Assembly "The right to inviolability of private life in the digital era."

After the court’s decision, they celebrated in Agora, the authorities had a formal reason to block Telegram. Blocking is now the main method of Internet regulation in Russia, lawyers indicate. The register of prohibited resources includes 94 thousand links.