st. Petersburg Primorsky District Court banned the citation in Russia of the statement of the French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre about the anti-communists. newspaper reports “Kommersant”.
On March 28, the final meeting was held to consider a relevant restraining request by the city’s prosecutor’s office. The whole process took about 10 months.
According to the newspaper, initially there were 42 defendants in the case, but by the last meeting their number was reduced to six – several sites. This is because most of the sites where the currently banned quote is posted have either removed it or been blocked by Roskomnadzor for other reasons.
Jean-Paul Charles Aimard Sartre was born on June 21, 1905 in Paris. Sartre is a French philosopher, representative of atheistic existentialism, writer, playwright and essayist, teacher. In 1964, the Frenchman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his work, rich in the spirit of freedom and truth-seeking ideas that have had a great impact on our time.” However, the author refused the award, fearing that, as a supporter of leftist views, he could be considered right-wing.