The recipient of the Gessen Book detained by customs appealed to the court

Lawyer Sergei Golubok appealed in court the actions of customs officers of the St. Petersburg Pulkovo Airport, who seized a parcel with the book of American journalist Masha Hessen ordered on the Internet. This was reported by the publication "Kommersant".

Golubka insists that on November 20, the detective of customs took from the office of the courier company DHL the parcel with the book received there on November 14, after which he opened it. The lawyer called this a violation of the right of correspondence and emphasized that such measures are allowed only by court decision.

The fact that Hessen’s book is a story. How totalitarianism again won Russia, ”was detained at customs, Sergei Golubok told on November 20.

The customs inspector of the Pulkovo customs demanded that the lawyer write a special letter in DHL. In it, the dove was forced to assure the Russian authorities that the Hesse study does not contain “calls for extremist and terrorist activity” and does not threaten the “interests of the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union” (EAEU).

The head of the International Human Rights Group “Agora” lawyer Pavel Chikov called a similar test of books to censorship .