A Russian teenager was jailed for five years for attempting to destroy a virtual building of the FSB security service created in the game on computers called Minecraft. Pavel Chikov, rights lawyer who represented the rights lawyer, said that Nikita Uvarov (16) was handed his sentence. Runescape will serve it in a penal colony of a military court, Siberia, on charges of "training terrorist activities'. Two other defendants were free of criminal charges and handed suspended sentences because they cooperated with investigators, Chikov added. The hearing was conducted in a closed room. This ruling is part a larger pattern set by President Vladimir Putin, in which young Russians are incarcerated for terrorism-related and controversial charges. Pavel Chikov, rights lawyer for Nikita Uvarov, said that Nikita Uvarov (16) was sentenced to five years in a penal colony located in Siberia for "training terrorist activities". Police found messages between Uvarov, and two others concerning plans to detonate the FSB structure they had built in the block-building game Minecraft (file image of the game). In the summer of 2020 Uvarov along with two other teenagers were arrested in the Siberian city of Kansk for distributing leaflets to support a Moscow mathematician and anarchist activist in court for vandalism. The trio placed one of the leaflets on the building of the local FSB, Russia's powerful domestic security agency, and the successor to the KGB of the Soviet era. KGB. Police confiscated their phones and reported that they had conversations about plans to destroy an FSB building they had built in the block-building game Minecraft. Investigators believe the three teens were practicing the detonation of explosives in abandoned buildings and learning how to make their own. "That's a World War when Americans and Russia start shooting... Gaming is accused of 'abusing' Olympian who failed to take drugs... The teenagers were initially charged with more serious charges of 'participating in a terrorist group', but the case was dismissed because of the lack of evidence. In his last words in court, which were reported by the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, Uvarov spoke about pressure from authorities during the investigation and denied planning to blow up anything. He denied guilt, and stated that if he was sentenced to prison time and was sentenced to prison, he would do it with a clear conscience as well as dignity. He added, "For the last time in court, I would like to declare that I am not terrorist." "I just would like to finish my education, get an education, and go further away from here and not bother anyone from the special service." In his final words in the courtroom, Uvarov (pictured with his mother Anna) spoke about pressure from authorities during the investigation, and denied planning to blow anything up. Russian opposition figures have condemned the verdict on social media. LyubovSobol is an ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Twitter, "Sick sadists imprison kids for having fun playing games." In August 2020 three activists - who were accused of belonging to an anarchist group called 'New Greatness' - were sentenced to time in jail for allegedly plotting to overthrow Putin's government. In a case brought by and supported by the FSB four other defendants were sentenced to suspended sentences. Seventeen teenagers who were anti-fascists or anarchists in February 2020 to six to 18 years of prison on terror charges. Arrested in 2017 and 2018, most of the men claimed that they were held in prison for a long time, beaten with electrodes and beat to confess.