"Kafka-Codex": The case of the hedgehog and mirror

Real judicial stories are in comics. Premiere of the heading

Galina Arapova

Lawyer, Director of the "Media Protection Center"

- In itself, the blocking that took place in 2014 took place according to the Lugovoi Law. These are amendments to the law “On Information”, which allowed to block the site without the participation of the judicial authority: either for information containing calls for riots; or for calls to participate in extremist activities; or for calls to participate in mass events conducted in violation of the law.

For some reason, when the site is blocked by the extrajudicial order, the Prosecutor General’s Office does not say what publication the site is blocked because of the publication. And since they do not talk about this, respectively, the owner of the site and cannot delete this publication to open the door and he could unlock the site. Accordingly, all the rhetoric would be at the level of “your trendy site”, “there is a lot of criticism”, “swamp” ... Once the representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office on the sidelines said that “well ... this is because of the totality of publications and the general orientation of the site.” The second time they hinted to me that it was because of the section on Bolotnaya.

If the Prosecutor General considered a dangerous section for the company, for example, reporting where and when there will be another meeting of one of the affairs included in this block along Bolotnaya, then the only conclusion suggests itself: which means that the prosecutor believes that the observation of the open trial, the presence of the public and journalists in the open court in the Russian court is equal to the events, is equal to events, We carry out in violation of the law as a conditionally unauthorized demonstration or rally.

The second part of the “Marlezon ballet” is the blocking of the “Mirror”. Suddenly four years later, the Prosecutor General’s Office blocked the second site, which the editors launched relatively recently. This site was not identical to the first, it was new, with new content. Suddenly for everyone, they considered that this new site is not just a site of the “daily magazine”, which is published by the editorial office, but a mirror of that old site. The new website of the "Daily Journal" was blocked by the same order of the Prosecutor General of 2014. In the trial, when the editorial representative tried to find out from the representative of the General Prosecutor's Office: “Why do you think that this site is a“ mirror ”?”, The editors received a link to Wikipedia. Apparently, Wikipedia is an authoritative source of interpretation of legal terms.

It is like taking the volume of Mayakovsky green and Tom Pushkin is also green and say that these are exactly the same books.

Documents to the court

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The decision of the Tver court of Moscow dated August 29, 2014 to block the original “Daily Journal”
Decision of the Tagansky District Court of 15. 05.18 to block the new “Hedgehog”
A lawsuit of the media protection center against blocking a hedgehog in 2017

Authors: Sergey Lebedenko, New Gazeta, Alexei Jorsh, comic book, especially for Novaya.

The project is working: Leonid Nikitinsky, Anna Ignatenko, New Gazeta, Julia Lakyvtseva, especially for Novaya