RT appealed to Roskomnadzor and the Prosecutor General's Office due to the blocking of Instagram of the Redfish project page

The complaint addressed to the head of Roskomnadzor, Andrey Lipov, says that "the administrator (owner) of Instagram has illegally restricted the free distribution of materials from Russian media on Instagram."

“In accordance with Art. 29 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, freedom of the media is guaranteed on the territory of the Russian Federation. Censorship is prohibited. In accordance with Art. 3 of the Law of the Russian Federation "On the Mass Media" censorship of the media, that is, the requirement from the editorial board of the media on the part of officials, state bodies, organizations, institutions or public associations to preliminarily agree on messages and materials (except for cases when the official is the author or interviewed), as well as the imposition of a ban on the dissemination of messages and materials, their separate parts, is not allowed, ”the appeal says.

The document says that the channel considers the actions of the administrator (owner) of the social network Instagram - Facebook Inc.

to block materials from Russian media outlets illegal.

“We ask you to take measures against censorship carried out by the administrator (owner) of Instagram,” the complaint underlines.

A similar appeal was addressed to the Prosecutor General of Russia Igor Krasnov.

On September 16, it became known that the Instagram social network blocked the page of the RT Redfish project.

The blocking occurred without any warning.

Representatives of the social network, citing "privacy and security considerations", said they could not "disclose information" about the reasons for the blocking.

Later, Redfish received a response that the account was blocked because "one or more of the Instagram community guidelines were violated or due to an error."

In particular, the account, which numbered 420 thousand subscribers, contained posts from a video of police brutality in the United States, a historical selection of posters from the USSR about the holiday of March 8, a message about the alleged ties of the British royal family with the Nazis.

In connection with the blocking, the project launched a campaign under the hashtag #InstagramBringBackRedfish with a call to Instagram to restore the account.

This is not the first time Redfish accounts have been blocked on social media.

In the spring, Facebook removed the Redfish page for anti-fascist posts with historical photographs.

Later, Roskomnadzor demanded that the platform remove all restrictions from the page, as well as explain the reasons for the ban.

Then Facebook returned the deleted page, but with restrictions: for example, the page could no longer appear in recommendations.