Russian student gets 19 years for plotting mosque attack. His father says officers tortured him for refusing to surrender his iPhone passcode

The Second Western District Military Court has sentenced Dmitry Bokov, a 19-year-old student at the Russian State University for the Humanities, to 19 years in prison for plotting a terrorist attack on a mosque. Ostorozhno, Novosti and Msk1 reported the sentence, citing his relatives. Bokov was convicted of undergoing training for terrorist activities (Article 205.3 of Russia’s Criminal Code), preparing to join a terrorist organization (Article 205.5), weapons offenses (Article 222), and preparing a terrorist attack (Article 205). Bokov was detained in October 2025. He was accused of attempting to join the far-right movement “White Power,” which is banned in Russia. He was later charged with preparing a terrorist attack on a mosque and illegally possessing ammunition. According to Ostorozhno, Novosti, investigators treated his attendance at a classroom session on how weapons work at Patriot Park, self-defense lessons run by the patriotic initiative Chistota, and several driving lessons at a Moscow college as terrorist training.

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