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Access Now and EFF Condemn the Arrest of Tor Node Operator Dmitry Bogatov in Russia

by Eva Galperin | April 24, 2017

This post was written in collaboration with Amie Stepanovich at Access Now.

On April 6, Russian math instructor Dmitry Bogatov was arrested in Moscow and charged with “preparing to organize mass disorder” and making “public calls for terrorist activity” due to a gross misunderstanding about the operation of the Tor internet anonymization service. Bogatov is accused of authoring a series of online posts published to the sysadmins.ru discussion platform on March 29 under the...

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