{"id":61766,"date":"2022-05-20T13:46:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T10:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=61766"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:05:23","slug":"court-overturns-ruling-blocking-the-tor-project-site-in-russia-and-refers-case-for-reconsideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/court-overturns-ruling-blocking-the-tor-project-site-in-russia-and-refers-case-for-reconsideration\/","title":{"rendered":"Court overturns ruling blocking The Tor Project site in Russia and refers case for reconsideration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The appellate court quashed the decision of the Saratov District Court, under which the main site The Tor Project was blocked. <a href=\"https:\/\/roskomsvoboda.org\/post\/otmena-blokirovki-the-tor-project\/\">\u00ab\u0420\u043e\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c\u0441\u0432\u043e\u0431\u043e\u0434\u0430\u00bb<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>As ForkLog reported, lawyer Ekaterina Abashina said that procedural violations formed the basis for the reversal. Specifically, the first-instance court did not involve The Tor Project Inc. in the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the case was sent for reconsideration with the site\u2019s owner participating.<\/p>\n<p>In a conversation with ForkLog, a Roskomsvoboda lawyer said the prosecutor is seeking to restrict access to the site due to &#8220;information enabling users to download the anonymising browser&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abWe insist that such information is neither prohibited nor restricted by RF law, directly or indirectly; there is no administrative or criminal liability for the dissemination of such information, therefore there are no legal grounds for restricting it,\u00bb Abashina said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A hearing on The Tor Project case is scheduled for May 26.<\/p>\n<p>In December last year, specialists <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/russia-begins-blocking-tor\">recorded the blocking<\/a> of access to the Tor network within the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p>The Tor Project Inc., the operator of the Tor network, reported receiving <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/roskomnadzor-threatens-tor-project-with-blocking-over-information-banned-in-russia\">a letter from Roskomnadzor<\/a> threatening to restrict access due to information prohibited in the territory of the Russian Federation. The formal basis was the Saratov District Court&#8217;s 2017 decision.<\/p>\n<p>Roskomsvoboda <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/roskomsvoboda-appeals-tor-blockage-in-russia\">appealed the blocking<\/a> on behalf of Tor Project Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appellate court overturned the Saratov District Court&#8217;s decision under which the main site of The Tor Project was blocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1412,94,49],"class_list":["post-61766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bans-and-restrictions","tag-roskomsvoboda","tag-tor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"33","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61768,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61766\/revisions\/61768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}