Opponents of Telegram blocking were detained for reading personal correspondence at the FSB reception in Moscow

In Moscow, police detained participants in a protest against the blocking of the Telegram messenger who were reading personal correspondence near the FSB reception building. One of the detainees, Anatoly Kapustin, told Mediazona about this.

According to Kapustin, there are now eight people in the paddy wagon, including the leader of the SERB movement , Igor Beketov, known as Gosha Tarasevich. In addition, the police detained Nika Burenkova, Orest Cherchesov, Artem Shtanov, Elizabeta Corsi, Alexander Brusentsev and Olga Nefedova. The detainees were brought to the Meshchansky police station.

According to Kapustin, he only managed to tell the journalists that they were going to read personal correspondence at the FSB reception. At this time, several NOD activists with St. George ribbons approached them. As soon as Kapustin read several messages from correspondence with his girlfriend, he and the rest of the protesters were taken to a paddy wagon “to check documents.”

On March 20, Roskomnadzor notified Telegram of the need to provide the FSB with decryption keys for user messages within 15 days. The ultimatum expires on April 4. According to the law, if the messenger does not comply with the requirements of Roskomnadzor, the regulator will be able to go to court to block it. management and lawyers Telegram have repeatedly said that the requirements of the intelligence services are technically impossible to fulfill.

In October 2017, Telegram was fined 800 thousand rubles for refusing to provide the FSB with keys to decrypt messages. Messenger tried to appeal this decision, but the court rejected the appeal , citing the FSB order . In March, the Supreme Court refused claim to satisfy Telegram’s against the FSB and cancel the order. The intelligence service insisted that the keys for decrypting messages do not relate to information constituting the secret of correspondence.

Updated at 7:40 p.m. The news changed the number of detainees, and also added to which department the paddy wagon with the protesters was brought.

Updated at 20:45 All detainees were taken to the police department, after which they were released without drawing up reports, Anatoly Kapustin told Mediazona.