In Russia 14 year olds face up to 9 years in prison for Minecraft Terrorism

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Am I wrong, or were they prosecuted for making explosive substances, among other things, not for minecraft? From a description of the case in Wikipedia [1]: > The prosecutors discovered that the boys had engaged in backyard chemical experiments, with their parents' knowledge, including making a saltpeter smoke device and an improvised Molotov cocktail.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansk_affair

I'm not going to argue with you either since I just learned about this case myself like today. But even if we completely trust to russian investigators, there still huge questions.

1. Why are they trialed by military court? Like no journalists allowed and everything off-the-record?

2. Do you think that 9 years sentence to a kid who didnt harm anyone is okay?

3. Do you think anyone would care about them messing with said substances if they would just blow their limbs off accidentally, instead going to stick some political agitation to FSB building?

This may be politically motivated. Russia has been cracking down on self proclaimed anarchists for a while now, and there have been signs of evidence falsification.

There was a case a few years ago where random anarchists were taken off the street and beaten, electrocuted and burned with intent to extract a false confession. I seriously doubt that the kids were making explosives, in light of how these cases are handled by the FSB. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/10/russian-anti-f...

Same news in Russian:

https://echo.msk.ru/news/2975336-echo.html

Coverage from 2020 on Newsweek:

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-minecraft-terrorism-building...

Wikipedia page with more details on this terrible case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansk_affair

That seems like a tiny overreaction?

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