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A Russian Minecraft player has been sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to accident up the Federal Security Services (FSB) building in-game.

The role player, 16-year-old Nikita Uranov, has been charged with training for terrorist activities by a Siberian military court on Thursday, according to The Moscow Times. In June 2022, Uranov and his friends, Denis Mikhailenko and Bogdan Andreyev were arrested for hanging political leaflets on the local FSB offices bearing slogans like "the FSB is the primary terrorist" in support of Moscow mathematician and agitator Azat Miftakhov, who was sentenced to six years in prison for vandalism. They were 14 at the time of the arrest.

When police took the teens' phones, they discovered a plot to accident up a virtual FSB building they had created within Minecraft.

Uranov pleaded non guilty in courtroom and was placed in a pre-trial detention center, where he claimed that the government subjected him to physical and mental torture to get him to confess his guilt during the investigation. "I am not a terrorist, I am not guilty. I would simply like to end my studies, become an education and go somewhere far away from here, somewhere I don't irritate anyone from the special services," he said in his closing argument to the court.

The teen was sentenced to five years in a penal colony. The other two were handed 3 and iv-year suspended sentences.

Co-ordinate to Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, human being rights activists claim that all aspects of the example, including the endeavour to accident upward the FSB edifice in Minecraft, are part of a pattern of Russian state security forces targeting teenagers to create an atmosphere of fearfulness amidst young people critical of the country's government. Even so, it's important for teens to be careful of what they practice in video games considering the police will take their actions and words seriously.