Telegram was fined 11 million rubles

The Moscow district court fined the Telegram messenger for 4 million rubles for the refusal to remove the personal data of Russian soldiers participating in the war in Ukraine, and for 7 million for the failure of calls for extremism.

According to the judge’s decisions, Telegram is found guilty of a failure to be removed. ” Such information was recognized in a number of telegram channels calling for sabotage on railways and discussions about anarchism, as well as on the actions of the Russian army in Ukraine and its losses during the war.

"Medusa" reports that we are talking about a bot with the personal data of the military.

• The bot, as stated, is intended "so that Russian citizens have the opportunity to find their relatives fighting in Ukraine and learn about their fate." The project was created on the initiative of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs a few days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian experts claim that information is used for military propaganda.
• At the end of February, the project website was blocked in Russia by decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office, and Roskomnadzor demanded that the Telegram messenger delete bots with Russian military data.
• In March 2022, the Human Rights Watch human rights organization called on the Ukrainian authorities to stop the publication of the personal data of Russian prisoners of war on social networks, as this violates their rights guaranteed by the Geneva Convention.