Telegram CEO Pavel Durov ARRESTED By French Police For Free Speech

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov ARRESTED By French Police For Free Speech

August 27, 2024

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The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported that Telegram has posed a 'significant challenge for Israel', just days before CEO Pavel Durov's arrest:

"Many tech firms have streamlined mechanisms through which states can reach out to them to censor content, but Telegram is the least cooperative of them all.”

Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of Telegram, was arrested today in France, there are different charges against him. Telegram is the main source of information about the Israeli genocide and massacre in Gaza.

Thousands of videos of Jews massacring children have been posted on Telegram channels by journalists living in Gaza. Israel is trying to stop that flow of information and that is why it has killed over 100 journalists in Gaza alone.

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov was detained at a Paris airport for allegedly enabling criminal activity with his encrypted messaging app, French media reported Saturday.

France issued an arrest warrant for Durov on charges of complicity in drug trafficking, crimes against children and fraud due to the lack of moderation on Telegram and his failure to cooperate with law enforcement, the TF1, LCI and BFMTV media outlets reported.

The 39-year-old billionaire was detained on the tarmac of Paris-Le Bourget Airport after his private jet landed from Azerbaijan, TF1 reported.

TF1 quoted an anonymous investigator as saying that Durov would most likely be placed in pre-trial detention.

Telegram is widely used by Russian speakers.

It has become a key platform for sharing information about the war in Ukraine and is reportedly used by the Russian military to communicate.

"Telegram is the main social media network through which open-source information is spread about the war. That includes footage but also opinions and analysis from Russian and Ukrainian military sources. A significant change to Telegram's policies could have a significant effect on the information domain for this war," military expert Rob Lee said on X (formerly Twitter).

Deputy Russian State Duma Speaker Vladislav Davankov said he had sent an appeal to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to seek Durov's release.

"His arrest may be politically motivated and a tool to gain access to the personal information of Telegram users. This must not be allowed," the state-run RIA Novosti news agency quoted Davankov as saying.

The Russian-born boss of Telegram, which he says boasts over 900 million users, is currently based in Dubai. He became a naturalized French citizen in August 2021.

Durov, also the founder of the VKontakte social network, left Russia in 2014 after he refused to share VKontakte users' data with Russian security services. Russia later unsuccessfully attempted to block Telegram over its alleged refusal to provide users’ online communications to security services.

"His non-cooperation with the FSB in favor of free speech is unfortunately completely neutralized by his non-cooperation with anyone to stop Telegram from being used for all these terrible things. It was his choice. Was it possible to do one and not do the other?" wrote investigative journalist Christo Grozev.

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