On January 28. the #H5 case started. Five comrades are currently being charged in front of the court in Hajnówka (Poland) for providing humanitarian aid on the Polish-Belarusian border. They are facing up to five years of prison with the accusation of helping people who “illegally” crossed the polish border.
We send greetings from Germany to our comrades in these times! For years, European states have been trying to criminalize solidarity work by no-border structures, to raise the fences and thus further restrict the living conditions of refugees. But we will not be intimidated by their repression - we will stand together and continue to fight: against the murderous borders and the world, the nation states and imperialism that protect them. For a world in which we do not have to flee from poverty, political persecution and war, but live equally in global cooperation and freedom Solidarity with #h5!
On January 28. the #H5 case started. Five comrades are currently being charged in front of the court in Hajnówka (Poland) for providing humanitarian aid on the Polish-Belarusian border. They are facing up to five years of prison with the accusation of helping people who “illegally” crossed the polish border.
We send greetings from Germany to our comrades in these times! For years, European states have been trying to criminalize solidarity work by no-border structures, to raise the fences and thus further restrict the living conditions of refugees. But we will not be intimidated by their repression - we will stand together and continue to fight: against the murderous borders and the world, the nation states and imperialism that protect them. For a world in which we do not have to flee from poverty, political persecution and war, but live equally in global cooperation and freedom Solidarity with #h5!
Telegram users are able to send files of any type up to 2GB each and access them from any device, with no limit on cloud storage, which has made downloading files more popular on the platform. The last couple days have exemplified that uncertainty. On Thursday, news emerged that talks in Turkey between the Russia and Ukraine yielded no positive result. But on Friday, Reuters reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin said there had been some “positive shifts” in talks between the two sides. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. 'Wild West' Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores.
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