Friend of Moroccan condemned to death for fighting Russian forces says sentence is ‘inhuman’

Dmytro Khrabstov (right) met Saaudun Brahim (left) through Kyiv’s clubbing scene in January 2021 (Dmytro Khrabstov/PA)

The friend of a Moroccan soldier condemned to death for fighting Russian forces has described the sentencing as “inhuman”.

Saaudun Brahim, a 21-year-old originally from Casablanca, Morocco, was sentenced to death in a Russia proxy court alongside Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner on Thursday.