Yuly Boyarshinov. Source: personal archive. Moscow’s Taganka district court has ruled in favour of a lawsuit by Roskomnadzor to block the Telegram messenger service. We ourselves have a channel and a legal bot on Telegram. It is very simply to get round the blocking! There are two fantastic links on this from Aleksandr Litreyev: this one or, even simpler, this second one. After clicking on the link, Telegram suggests that you set up a web proxy. This is secure, but you must do it on all your devices.
The authorities continue to hype up the case of the so-called “Network” terrorist group. Earlier, a number of those accused in this case alleged they had been tortured.
- Yuly Boyarshinov, from St Petersburg, has been named as a new defendant in this case. We tell the story of how Yuly came to be one of the accused in this case, about pressure that was put on him in pre-trial detention, about a single cell with 150 people, and about the anarchist symbol drawn on the dusty glass of a cell window. If you want to share this story with your friends abroad, here is an English translation.
