After criticism from multiple Iraqi factions, the Iraqi government announced Sunday that the Telegram platform suspension would be lifted. The decision came a week after the suspension was imposed on the grounds of "national security".

The Iraqi Ministry of Communications declared, on Saturday night, that "the lifting of the freeze on Telegram from tomorrow, Sunday."

A week ago, the Iraqi government suspended the app stating that it "did not respond" to repeated requests to address the issue of "data leakage from state institutions and individuals, which poses a threat to national security and social peace."

Today, the new statement noted that the app managers did respond to "demands of authorities by detecting the people who divulged the data of citizens and by expressing their full availability to communicate with relevant authorities."

Iraq was not the first country to ban Telegram in recent months, with Brazil doing so earlier in April.

Telegram no longer suspended in Brazil after court ruling

Earlier in April, a Brazilian judge overturned the Brazilian court's decision to suspend the Telegram messaging service because the parent firm refused to give authorities the information they requested on neo-Nazis using the network.

For failing to cooperate in an investigation into neo-Nazi behavior on social networks connected to school violence, that court fined Telegram a million reais (about $198,000) each day and ordered the temporary suspension of its operations. 

According to the G1 news agency, a Brazilian Supreme Court judge has ruled that Telegram be barred in the country. The decision was made due to Telegram's alleged reputation for refusing to cooperate with law enforcement and judicial agencies in many nations.

The federal police allegedly submitted the motion to stop the instant messaging service, telling the court that Telegram is "notorious for its non-cooperation position with judicial and police authorities in various countries."

The Federal Regional Court-2 (TRF-2) in Rio de Janeiro announced that Judge Flavio Lucas had ruled that the nationwide suspension of the app was "not reasonable" because it interferes with "the freedom of communication of thousands of people absolutely unrelated to the facts being investigated".

The judge did, however, uphold the first one million real (USD 198,000) daily penalties levied on the business. 

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