{
  "id": 12470806,
  "title": "Russian student gets 19 years for plotting mosque attack. His father says officers tortured him for refusing to surrender his iPhone passcode.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/russian-student-gets-19-years-for-plotting-mosque-attack-his-father",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-06T21:01:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Meduza (English)",
    "slug": "meduza-english",
    "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/07/russian-student-gets-19-years-for-plotting-mosque-attack-his-father-says-officers-tortured-him-for-refusing-to-surrender-his-iphone-passcode"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A Russian student, Dmitry Bokov, has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for plotting a terrorist attack on a mosque. His family claims that police tortured him for refusing to reveal the passcode to his iPhone. Bokov was convicted of attending training sessions related to terrorist activities, preparing to join a banned far-right group, and illegally possessing ammunition. Police treated his attendance at a self-defense class and driving lessons as terrorist training. His father claims the charges stemmed from a phone that didn't belong to his son, which was seized during a search. Bokov's relatives allege that the officers threatened him with torture if he didn't cooperate, which he refused to do. Consequently, he spent his time before the trial in pretrial detention.",
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}