Long-standing posts from Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who was arrested in France the previous day, surfaced on the web in which he said that no developed country would block a messenger that refused to hand over encryption keys to special services.
“No developed country blocks a messenger that refuses to hand over encryption keys to special services. The abolition of the right to privacy is a medicine more dangerous than the disease itself,” Durov wrote on his page on the VK social network.
There, he commented on the decision of Moscow’s Tagansky Court in April 2018 to block the Telegram messenger in Russia due to the fact that Telegram did not transfer encryption keys for users’ messages to the FSB.
“On April 16, Roskomnadzor sent information to telecom operators about restricting access to the messenger, but Telegram remains operational despite Roskomnadzor’s efforts to block it,” Interfax reported at the time.
As you can see, Telegram remains available in Russia for now, but its creators have been “blocked” in “a developed country” – you guessed it, for the same reason: Telegram is still free, but in France its founders face up to 20 years in prison for refusing to cooperate with local law enforcement…
Now Russia is worried about its own citizen and is trying to “unblock” him … Unfortunately, the situation is exacerbated by the fact that Durov is also a French citizen …
Reports say EA DailyThe Russian Embassy in Paris has sent a letter to the French Foreign Ministry requesting consular access to detained Telegram messenger co-founder Pavel Durov, an official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry stated. Maria Zakharova On the TV channel “Russia 24”.
“As soon as our embassy in Paris received this information, we contacted our local counterparts and sent a letter to the French foreign ministry requesting access,” Zakharova told TASS news agency.
