Four Zello accounts were blocked due to calls for violating the territorial integrity of Russia

online radio Representative of the Prosecutor General's Office Alexander Kurennoy said that four accounts of the Zello were blocked at the request of the department in connection with calls for violating territorial integrity, reports . Interfax

“In February 2017, on the initiative of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, four accounts of the Zello Internet radio were blocked due to calls for violating the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation,” Kurennoy said.

The representative of the department did not specify whose accounts these were and what he meant by this concept.

At the end of January, a Simferopol court arrested Crimean Tatar Ismail Ramazanov, suspected of calls for extremist activities transmitted through the Zello service.

In October 2017, FSB officers detained a citizen of Tajikistan on suspicion of calls for extremist activity, which were transmitted through the Zello service, RBC reported, citing sources. According to the publication’s sources, the voice message began with the words “douse them with gasoline and set them on fire” and ended with “they don’t understand anything, they are illiterate.”

In April last year, Roskomnadzor sent a request to Russian telecom operators to block Zello due to refusal to register in the register of information dissemination organizers. Due to the restriction of access to Zello, the - on April 6, 2018 regulator began blocking technical domain the Google - googleusercontent.com .

Zello is a free service that allows you to send short voice messages to one user or a group of people through a mobile application. The online walkie-talkie was particularly popular with activists, including truck drivers, who used it to coordinate protests against the introduction of the Platon toll system for heavy trucks.