Irkutsk residents held pickets in support of teenagers convicted of “terrorism” from Kansk

Residents of Irkutsk held one-man pickets in support of teenagers from Kansk, who were convicted under a terrorist article.

According to Taiga.info, one of the protesters was holding a poster with the inscription “Political repressions do not make allowances for age.”

Earlier, the military visiting judicial board of the 1st Eastern District Military Court passed a sentence on three teenagers from Kansk accused of teaching terrorist activities (Article 205.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

16-year-old Nikita Uvarov was sentenced by a military court to a real 5 years of imprisonment in an educational colony until the age of 19, and then in a strict regime colony. Two of his friends, Denis Mikhailenko and Bogdan Andreev, were released from criminal liability by the military court under the same article for assisting the investigation, but were convicted under other articles, for which they received 3 and 4 years of suspended imprisonment. In addition to the terrorist article 205.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, all three minor defendants in the criminal case were charged with four episodes of manufacturing and three episodes of storage of explosives (Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). On February 18, Uvarov was registered in the Kansk pre-trial detention center as prone to extremism.

At some point, the accusation was based on the correspondence of teenagers, in which they discussed how they wanted to blow up the FSB building, modeled on the popular game Minecraft. Experiments with pyrotechnics were charged to teenagers as illegal trafficking in explosives.