i'll just guess the rest, as i can't be bothered. scenario i'm imagining: the public quran burning led to intelligence services looking into him, which led to the treason and espionage charges when they uncovered it. so he would've got away with the big thing if he had just stayed on the downlow and not done the small thing. again, this is giving the authorities even an illusion of good faith. they don't deserve that illusion. the entire system is factually and brazenly corrupt. he could've just been someone who stumbled into someone in a circle of power and so they decided to assrape him and run him through the russian penal system.
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