Two British and one Moroccan man sentenced to death in 'show trial' in Russian-occupied Ukraine
British men Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner and Moroccan Brahim Saadoun. Picture: RIA/ Twitter
Two British men and a Moroccan who were captured while fighting for Ukraine were sentenced to death on Thursday by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), one of Russia's proxies in eastern Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported.
The court found the three men - Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner and Moroccan Brahim Saadoun - guilty of "mercenary activities and committing actions aimed at seizing power and overthrowing the constitutional order of the DPR", the Interfax news agency quoted a court official as saying.
