Brazil: On Saturday, a judge in Brazil lifted an order that had banned the Telegram messaging app throughout the nation. After the Brazilian authorities asked for user information on alleged neo-Nazi criminals, the service was shut down because the provider claims it is impossible to comply.

A federal judge in the state of Espirito Santo ruled on Saturday that it is "not reasonable" to impede the "freedom of communication of thousands of people" who are unrelated to the criminal case under investigation.

A Brazilian court last week ordered Google, Apple, and four Brazilian telecom companies to remove Telegram from their app stores and block access to the platform after the company refused to give investigators information on the administrators of a neo-Nazi group chat. 

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Police requested access to the data after learning that a 16-year-old who shot four people dead and more than a dozen others at two schools in Aracruz in November had been sharing bomb-making instructions and violent death videos as well as anti-Semitic content on Telegram groups.

Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram who was born in Russia, vowed to challenge the order and claimed that getting the data sought by law enforcement would be "impossible for us to obtain." While some of the data was delivered by Telegram, the administrators' phone numbers were omitted.

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As long as Telegram kept withholding the remaining data, the court imposed a fine of 1 million reals ($198,000) per day. This fine will remain in effect, according to the judge's decision from Espirito Santo on Saturday.

Last year, the Brazilian government took action to suspend Telegram on the grounds that the platform disobeyed requests to halt the spread of "disinformation." After that, the company was fined in January for failing to block the right-wing lawmaker Nikolas Ferreira's account.

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Durov said in a statement on Thursday that Telegram occasionally decides "to leave such markets" when local laws conflict with the dedication to privacy of his platform.

No matter the cost, he wrote, "We will defend our Brazilian users' right to private communication."