Posted on 02/10/2022 5:51:41 PM PST by nickcarraway
A Russian teenager was sent to prison on Thursday for supposedly "training" for terrorist activities and other charges that included blowing up a virtual government intelligence building on the video game Minecraft.
A military court in Siberia sentenced the boy, 16-year-old Nikita Uvarov, to five years for the charges -- which stemmed from anti-government leaflets he'd handed out and videos on cellphones belonging to Uvarov and at least two others.
Authorities also said they'd uncovered a plot by the teens to blow up a virtual building belonging to the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, that they'd built in the block-building game Minecraft.
The FSB is the top intelligence and security service in Russia and the successor to the Soviet-era KGB.
The two other teenagers were given suspended sentences on Thursday because they cooperated with prosecutors in the case against Uvarov.
The case against Uvarov follows a number of other controversial anti-terrorist prosecutions in Russia. In 2020, several young activists were jailed for supposedly planning a coup and other terror-related charges. Some of them claimed that Russian authorities effectively beat confessions out of them -- a claim similar to what Uvarov said in court on Thursday.
"I am not a terrorist, I am not guilty," he said, according to The Moscow Times. "I would just like to finish my studies, get an education and go somewhere far away from here, somewhere I don't irritate anyone from the special services."
Uvarov also told the court that he never planned to blow anything up.
A Russian soldier, who was being threatened with gang rape by his superiors after he had seen the officers systematically rape other soldiers ahead of him, gunned down the officers in a surprise attack. Homosexual rape in the Russian military happens enough that there are large numbers of suicides every year from the abuse.
The Russian government denied all of this and blamed the shooting on "violent video games."
Second sentence refers anti-government activities NOT related to a video game:
“A military court in Siberia sentenced the boy, 16-year-old Nikita Uvarov, to five years for the charges — which stemmed from anti-government leaflets he’d handed out and videos on cellphones belonging to Uvarov and at least two others.”
Next states that in the investigation they ALSO found the video game.
“Authorities also said they’d uncovered a plot by the teens to blow up a virtual building belonging to the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, that they’d built in the block-building game Minecraft.”
Do they have trials by jury yet in Russia, or is the justice system still like the Soviet Union’s?
“t must be your water. Or maybe encephalitis from the fecal contamination having entered your ears.”
Thanks for the additional info!
The First Eastern District Military Court in the Krasnoyarsk region sentenced Nikita Uvarov on February 10 after finding him guilty of illegal weapons possession and passing through training for implementation of a terrorist act, charges he has rejected since his arrest in fall 2020.
Two other defendants in the case were convicted of illegal weapons possession and handed suspended prison terms of three years and four years, Vladimir Ilkov, the lawyer for one of the two other defendants, told RFE/RL.
Am I being super critical, or does it seem that there is a whole lot of juvenile sounding "Because we said so" coming out of the mouths of government operatives that are questioned about assertions they have made?
PLAY stupid games-—Win stupid prizes.
To be fair, shouldn’t the kid’s avatar be put in the virtual jail for blowing up a virtual building.
Poor kid! He should have moved to the U.S.A. and joined Antifa.
He could have burned and blown up real Federal buildings and nothing at all would have happened to him.
So you are saying they are in jail for five years for handing out leaflets? Is that any better?
Bingo. If one is going to invest some time to learn more, they were disseminating leaflets calling for the attacks on law enforcement and were assembling an explosive device with the goal to blow by the real building.
Minecraft on their devices is totally unrelated to the charges, but the media has turned it into propaganda and you don’t need to know it.
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Are they using this game as a recruiting tool or something? Is there an encrypted chat feature?
I've heard in the past that some games are used clandestinely for comms purposes. Maybe if your character does certain things in the game, like going to this building, it serves as a signal, even if chat is not available.
Complete BS on you're part for posting the charges, not what they actually did. The "training for implementation of a terrorist act" was making pyrotechnics and allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at a wall.
Nikita Uvarov, Denis Mikhailenko and Bogdan Andreyev from Kansk, a town in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk region, were arrested in June 2020 for hanging up political leaflets on the local FSB office that included slogans such as “the FSB is the main terrorist” and support for Azat Miftakhov, an anarchist who was sentenced to six years in prison. All three suspects were 14 at the time of their arrest. news
Uvarov was sentenced to five years in a penal colony, while Mikhailenko and Andreyev were handed three and four-year suspended sentences.
Following their arrests, the FSB searched the teens’ phones, where they uncovered videos of them making pyrotechnics and allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at a wall, as well as a plot to blow up a virtual FSB building they had built in Minecraft.
Complete BS on your part. The "explosive device" that they made were pyrotechnics and they threw some molotovs against a wall. The "disseminating leaflets calling for the attacks on law enforcement" were political leaflets that included slogans such as “the FSB is the main terrorist" that they hung on the local FSB office.
Police state-they sentenced Uvarov to five years in a penal colony.
Find a report detailing the trial in the source which is not a liberal propaganda.
As a side note, what do you think Molotov cocktail is, according to the National firearms act?
Educate yourself on what a destructive device is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destructive_device
It is illegal by federal law to manufacture and possess one.
LOL, sure they were going to destroy FSB Headquarters with pyrotechnics and motovs.
Thank goodness this can’t happen here. /s
J6 commission says “hold me martini.”
Don’t be a clown, but read the law. The stuff described in the article is going to put you in prison in the United States, and for longer than 5 years. Where are you going to escape from a “police state”?
Unless you are Antifa or BLM (Burn Loot Murder).
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