A military court in Siberia has sentenced an unidentified foreign student to 14 years in prison for promoting and participating in terrorist activities, Russian state media reported Thursday.
The First Eastern Military Garrison Court in Khabarovsk found the defendant guilty of “justifying and propagandizing” an international terrorist organization since early 2023, according to the state-run TASS news agency. Neither the student’s identity and nationality nor the terrorist group allegedly involved were disclosed by authorities.
Local media outlets, citing the Altai region branch of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), reported that the convicted individual had previously attended an unnamed university in the region, which lies approximately 2,900 kilometers (1,800 miles) east of Moscow near the Kazakh border.
The FSB released video footage, distributed by TASS, showing plainclothes agents apprehending the student in what appeared to be a Soviet-era dormitory hallway before transferring him to an administrative facility.
