Pavel Durov, the Russian-French billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, TF1 TV and BFM TV said, citing unidentified sources.

IRNA The access problem of Telegram messenger will be solved within hours, Telegram CEO said. Massive overheating in one of the Telegram server clusters may cause some connection issues for European users within the next couple of hours. Apologies for the inconvenience the problem is being solved, Pavel Durov wrote on his Twitter account. Telegram ...

IRNA - Telecommunication Infrastructure Company announced that the lincese for deployment of Telegram servers in Iran has been nullified. The Telegram company is now obliged to withdraw its servers from circuit. The legal license issued by National Cyberspace Center regarding the deployment of the Telegram distribution network servers to Iran ...

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IRNA - The Russian Federal Security Service (RFSS) compiled a protocol against Telegram because of refusal of the messenger to give access to user messages and Iran's protest, reports said. According to the local media reports, the RFSS protocol said that Telegram did not fulfill 'its obligation to provide the information necessary to decode the ...

RFERL - Iranian news agencies say Tehran's prosecutor has filed criminal charges against the "management" of Telegram, the popular encrypted messaging app founded by Russian social-networking mogul Pavel Durov. Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said that the charges stemmed from Telegram's alleged role as a platform for child pornography and extremist ...

AP -- Iran's communications and information technology minister was quoted Sunday as saying the widely used Telegram messenger service has transferred some of its servers into the country, but the encrypted application's founder swiftly denied the claim. The report from Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency quoted Mahmoud Vaezi as saying: "As a result ...

IFP - The CEO of Telegram messaging app says the Iranian government has never asked the company to provide it with the private information of Iranian users. Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging service, referred to Iran, and said Telegram has around 40 million users in Iran where social networks such as Facebook ...

Financial Tribune- Telegram messenger, the most popular communications app in Iran, launched its voice calling service on April 13, however, according to a new tweet by the companys founder Pavel Durov the new feature is being blocked. Durov wrote his personal authenticated account, Yes, we have activated calls for our users in Iran, but Iranian ...

Tehran, Nov 5, IRNA The CEO of the smartphone messaging application Telegram apologized to the Iranian users due to his hasty remarks, an Iranian official said. Head of public relations department at Iran's Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (CIT) Mohammad Reza Farnaqizadeh told IRNA on Thursday said that the Telegram CEO Pavel ...