{"id":3375,"date":"2024-08-25T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/25\/pavel-durov-russia-calls-telegram-founder-a-political-prisoner-after-arrest-in-france\/"},"modified":"2024-08-25T17:00:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T17:00:36","slug":"pavel-durov-russia-calls-telegram-founder-a-political-prisoner-after-arrest-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/25\/pavel-durov-russia-calls-telegram-founder-a-political-prisoner-after-arrest-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavel Durov: Russia calls Telegram founder a \u2018political prisoner\u2019 after arrest in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram founder Pavel Durov is a \u201cpolitical prisoner\u201d after his arrest in France, a Russian official has said.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Russian-born billionaire behind the encrypted messaging app <strong>was detained after his private jet landed<\/strong> at Le Bourget airport on the outskirts of <strong>Paris <\/strong>on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>It is unclear what Mr Durov was arrested for but BFMTV reported the warrant concerned a lack of moderators on <strong>Telegram<\/strong> and potential criminal activity, including the app\u2019s possible use in money laundering, drug trafficking or sharing of child sex abuse content.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russian<\/strong> lawmakers have condemned his arrest, with Maria Butina \u2013 who spent 15 months in a US prison for acting as an unregistered Russian agent \u2013 accusing Europe of trying to seize control of Telegram.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>\u201cPavel Durov is a political prisoner \u2013 a victim of a witch-hunt by the West,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe arrest of Pavel Durov means there is no freedom of speech \u2013 it means that freedom of speech in Europe is dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow basically they have a hostage and they will try to blackmail Russia, they will try to blackmail all the users of Telegram and not only try to get control but also try to block the network here in Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Durov left Russia in 2014 after losing control of his previous social media company Vkontakte (VK).<\/p>\n<p>He refused to comply with government demands to shut down opposition groups on the platform and would not hand over data on Ukrainian protesters to security agencies.<\/p>\n<p>He moved to Dubai in 2017 and became a French citizen in August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian embassy in France has also called for consular access to Mr Durov and demanded his rights be ensured, according to Russian state news agency TASS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more on Sky News:<br \/>War hero becomes Britain\u2019s oldest skydive<br \/>Oasis are definitely, maybe reuniting next year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>France has so far \u201cavoided engagement\u201d on the situation with Durov and Russian diplomats are in contact with his lawyer, the embassy said.<\/p>\n<p>Local reports suggest Mr Durov could face an indictment on Sunday. The French interior ministry, police and Paris prosecutor\u2019s office had no comment on his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Telegram is one of the most downloaded apps in the world, with close to <strong>one billion users<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It offers end-to-end encryption \u2013 effectively protecting data from being intercepted \u2013 and has a strong focus on privacy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram founder Pavel Durov is a \u201cpolitical prisoner\u201d after his arrest in France, a Russian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}