So decided the Leninsky district court of Saratov, satisfying the requirements of the prosecutor's office. For the first time, the court ruled to block the browser in 2017, but the blocking began only 4 years later. However, in May 2022, the decision was canceled due to a violation of the procedural law during the first time the case was considered. Yesterday, the Leninsky District Court of Saratov satisfied the new requirements of the Saratov District Prosecutor's Office in the case of the site of the Tor network project in Russia. This was reported on the website of the court. According to the court, Tor Browser "contains information prohibited for distribution on the territory of the Russian Federation," and also allows you to access content that "contributes to the commission of criminal offenses."
Tor Browser allows you to establish an anonymous connection to sites, as well as connect to hidden sites in the .onion zone. According to Ekaterina Abashina, a lawyer for the human rights organization Roskomsvoboda, who represented the interests of browser developers, the Court ignored the definitions from the federal law “On Information” and “agreed with the position of Roskomnadzor that information, application and technology are one and the same,” said Mrs Abashina. Such an interpretation, according to the lawyer, also contradicts the actual structure of the Internet. The requirement for Google to remove the application from the store on July 26 was separated into a separate proceeding, the Tor case was essentially heard without him, she added.
Tor Browser allows you to establish an anonymous connection to sites, as well as connect to hidden sites in the .onion zone. According to Ekaterina Abashina, a lawyer for the human rights organization Roskomsvoboda, who represented the interests of browser developers, the Court ignored the definitions from the federal law “On Information” and “agreed with the position of Roskomnadzor that information, application and technology are one and the same,” said Mrs Abashina. Such an interpretation, according to the lawyer, also contradicts the actual structure of the Internet. The requirement for Google to remove the application from the store on July 26 was separated into a separate proceeding, the Tor case was essentially heard without him, she added.
