"Mediazon" will sue due to the forced removal of an article about coronavirus in pre-trial detention centers and colonies

Roskomnadzor demanded that the Mediazones delete the material called “invisible epidemic. How Koronavirus went according to the FSIN system” on the basis that the article allegedly contains “inaccurate socially significant information distributed under the guise of reliable messages”.

The regulator believes that this information "poses a threat of harm to the life or health of citizens, property, a threat of massive violation of public order or public security or a threat of interference with the functioning of life support objects, transport or social infrastructure, credit organizations, energy, industry or communications."

What kind of fragments of the text caused claims, Roskomnadzor was not sophisticated, but believes that the article has data on the uncontrolled distribution of the Covid-19 in the criminal-penalty system and “insufficient measures taken by the department to prevent incidence” among prisoners, as well as “about the attempts of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia to hide the real number of infected people in severe state. For this reason, others. "

Under the threat of blocking the Mediazona deleted the text of the study, and the title and introduction changed beyond recognition. Now the material is called this: “The invisible [Roskomnadzor]. How [Roskomnadzor] went on the system of [Roskomnadzor] - the study of the“ zone of law ”. In the introductory paragraphs of the word“ pandemia of coronavirus ”,“ epidemic ”,“ infected ”,“ infected ”, etc. Replaced by“ Roskomnadzor]. ”At the same time, the original text was preserved in the web archive.

The article, to which claims arose, the "mediazon" and the human rights organization "Zone of Law" on open sources and their own information analyzed the situation with coronavirus in the institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service. The data showed that the first sick came to the regions with a stage from Moscow and St. Petersburg, in April the foci of the disease appeared in colonies throughout the country.

The editor-in-chief of Mediazons Sergey Smirnov noted in the Telegram channel that the editors are incomprehensible to claims to the article. In this regard, the publication filed a lawsuit against the Prosecutor General and Roskomnadzor, asking to recognize the requirement to delete the article by a violation of the law, said Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora international human rights organization.

On December 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to begin large-scale vaccination from coronavirus in the country, and on December 8, the Prosecutor General’s Office adopted the requirement of N27-31-2020/ID13531-20 to take measures to limit information resources containing information about coronavirus infection distributed in violation of the law, writes Chikov.

On the same day, Roskomnadzor warned the media, social networks and other Internet resources about the inadmissibility of the spread of "unconfirmed information regarding the need for vaccination, its safety and vaccines used." The department said that such information contributes to the "forming a distorted idea of ​​the need to pass vaccination, discredits the activities of healthcare authorities, causes a distrust of the population and can lead to an increase in the incidence."

Then, on December 8, Roskomnadzor demanded that the mediazone delete the article. “Even according to the fragmentary data, it was clear that the FSIN was in a swing of the number of patients, but Roskomndazer decided that it was“ inaccurate information, ”Smirnov writes.“ And reliable is the FSIN data that one and a half thousand convicts were infected in the entire epidemic (this is soon 2.5 million sick people around the country!) And only one (!) People died. ”

Prior to this, the media wrote about the complaints of the test participants of the Sputnik V vaccine for the absence of antibodies and that in the metropolitan region the vaccine can already receive everyone at the first stage, and not just representatives of risk groups.