Pavel Durov cannot personally participate within the Oslo Freedom Forum after a French court blocked his application for travel. The human rights foundation that the forum organizes confirmed the news on May twenty fourth.
The Oslo Freedom Forum is a summit that focuses on human rights and bourgeois freedom. Durov, the co -founder of Telegram, must be a keynote speaker on the event in Oslo, Norway. He will now address the audience from afar via Livestream.
Pavel Durov initiated it in Oslo Freedom Forum. Source: X/@Durov
HRF founder and CEO Thor Halvorsen reacted to the choice.
“It is unlucky that French dishes would prevent Mr. Durov from participating in an event wherein his voice is so essential.”
he said.
No further legal details were shared by the court or the human rights foundation. However, the choice is followed by the newest tensions between Pavel Durov and the French authorities on telegramcensors.
According to Durov, Nicolas Lerner requested the telegram censorship in France
On May 18, Pavel Durov wrote about Telegram that the French secret services had asked him to censor conservative content in reference to the Romanian elections. He later identified Nicolas Lerner, head of the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI), as a civil servant behind the request.
Durov said that the conversation took place within the salon of the Battales in Hôtel de Crillon, a well -known venue in Paris. In a post on X, he explained:
“This spring within the salon of the Battales within the Hôtel de Crillon, Nicolas Lerner, the top of the French secret services, I asked for conservative voices in Romania before the elections. I didn’t refuse. We haven’t blocked demonstrators in Russia, Belarus or Iran. We won’t start doing it in Europe.”
Durov has repeatedly said that telegrams won’t censor the political content even under pressure from the governments. He said the platform would go away the markets before it agreed to limit political speech.
The founding father of Telegram described the federal government's censorship inquiries as human rights violations. He noticed that his team wouldn’t make any exceptions based on the region.
Telegram censorship dispute that’s certain to Romanian elections
The application for telegramcensors of the French secret service reports on the Romanian presidential elections conservative voices. Pavel Durov said he rejected the request and publicly criticized the approach.
In a contribution from May 18 to Telegram, he wrote:
“You cannot defend democracy by destroying democracy. You cannot” combat “the voting mixture through the elections.
At first he didn’t mention a rustic, but later made it clear that the request got here from France and was related to Romania. Durov also reported that Telegram had taken the identical attitude as similar demands from governments in Russia, Belarus and Iran were.
No representative of the French government, including the DGSI, has publicly commented on Durov's statements. The Human Rights Foundation also didn’t reply to the censorship claims.
The ongoing legal case in France may be related to the travel ban
The French court has not disclosed the complete reason that Pavel Durov's travel application was refused. However, he’s currently involved in a legal case in France. The case details weren’t published.
This case appears to be the explanation why he cannot leave France, also to talk of events just like the Oslo Freedom Forum. The Human Rights Foundation didn’t check with the legal case in its declaration, but confirmed that Durov's speech would still happen via Livestream.
Telegram stays in operation in France and Romania with none restrictions or changes to report. Durov's statements, nevertheless, have renewed attention to the subject of platform control in the course of the elections.
