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Russian Boy Is Incarcerated For Trying To Blow Up Virtual Minecraft Building A Russian teenager has been imprisoned for five years for planning to blow up a virtual building of the FSB security agency that was created in the computer game Minecraft. Nikita Uvarov, 16 was sentenced, which he will serve in a penal colony, by an army court in Siberia for 'training for terrorist activities' the rights lawyer Pavel Chikov said on Telegram. Chikov confirmed that two other defendants were released from criminal charges and were given suspended sentences for cooperating with investigators. The hearing was held in a closed room. This decision is part of an overall pattern established by President Vladimir Putin, in which young Russians are incarcerated on a variety of controversial and preventive terrorist charges. Pavel Chikov, rights lawyer for Nikita Uvarov, said that Nikita Uvarov (16) was sentenced to five years in a penal colony in Siberia for 'training terrorist activities'. Police discovered messages between Uvarov and two others concerning plans to detonate an FSB building they had built in the block-building game Minecraft (file photograph of the game). In the summer of 2020, Uvarov and two other teens were detained in the Siberian city of Kansk for distributing flyers in support of a Moscow mathematician and anarchist activist who was being tried for vandalism. EMAIL The trio placed one of the leaflets on a local structure of the FSB. This massive Russian security agency is the successor to the Soviet-era KGB. Police confiscated their phones and reported that they found conversations about plans to destroy an FSB building they built in the block-building game Minecraft. According to investigators the three teenagers were making an explosive device from scratch and practiced blasting them in abandoned buildings. "That's an international war when Americans and Russia begin shooting... Russia is accused of abusing Olympians who failed to take drugs... The initial charges against the teens were more serious for 'participating with a terrorist organization'. However, the case was dropped because of the absence of evidence. In his last words in court, as reported by the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, Uvarov spoke of the pressure from authorities during the investigation and denied he planned to blow anything up. He pleaded not guilty, and said that if sentenced to real prison time, he would do so with an unshakeable conscience and dignity. He added, "For the last time in court, I'd like to declare that I am not terrorist." "I just want to finish my education, complete an education and go further away from here and not bother anyone from the special service." In his last words in the courtroom, Uvarov (pictured with his mother Anna) spoke about pressure from the authorities during the investigation, and denied that he was planning to blow anything up. The sentence has been condemned by Russian opposition individuals on social media. LyubovSobol, an ally to jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Twitter, "Sick sadists imprison kids for playing games and having fun." In August 2020 three activists - who were accused of belonging to an anarchist group called "New Greatness" - were sentenced to jail for plotting to overthrow Putin's government. Four others were handed suspended sentences in a trial initiated by the FSB which supporters claimed was fabricated. Seventeen young anti-fascists and anarchists were sentenced in February 2020 to 6 to 18 years in prison on terror charges. Arrested in 2017 and the year 2018 Most of the suspects claimed they had been tortured in custody with electrodes and beats to confess.
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