🇷🇺 British Mercenaries Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, as well as Moroccan Saadoun Brahim, were sentenced to the death penalty.

This was not the case for Brahim Saadoun, who, according to his Ukrainian friends, had "fallen in love with Ukraine" and wished to "return the favor to this country that gave him so much." These same friends claim that Mr. Saadoun had joined the Ukrainian army as early as the fall of 2021. Moreover, he was wearing the uniform of the 36th Marine Infantry Brigade of Mariupol when he was captured last April in the Donbas region and not a month earlier, as Russian media claimed at the time of his trial.

The Russian Ministry of Defense had prepared public opinion for the Donetsk verdict by hammering home the point shortly before the ruling, saying that "mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine are not combatants in the sense of international law." The speaker of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, then supported the verdict handed down by the separatist authorities, adding that the "death penalty is what these fascists deserve." The triple death sentence was called a "war crime" by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the European Court of Human Rights urged Moscow to halt the execution of Brahim Saadoun ... https://perma.cc/JZH5-WP8W

Aiden Aslin among 10 international ‘prisoners of war’ released by Russian authorities https://perma.cc/77DS-9TF3

Aiden Aslin recounts how he was beaten, stabbed and asked whether he wanted quick or ‘beautiful’ death https://perma.cc/33YY-67MW

JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE HOW DEATH SENTENCES ARE APPLIED WITH 💩 ...
https://news.1rj.ru/str/AmnestyBullshit/514
https://news.1rj.ru/str/AmnestyBullshit/512
https://news.1rj.ru/str/AmnestyBullshit/511
https://news.1rj.ru/str/AmnestyBullshit/347

but this doesn't mean death penalties are 💩!