British citizen Sean Pinner, citizen of the Kingdom of Morocco Saadoun Brahim and British citizen Aiden Eslin in a courtroom in Donetsk. File photoMOSCOW, June 9Foreign mercenaries, previously convicted in the Donetsk People's Republic and sentenced to death, did not hide their crimes and even published testimonies of them on social networks, said the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin. some part was simply taken and published,» Pushilin said on the air of Channel One. He clarified that this was not about their confession of their guilt in court, but about the fact that they published their crimes on social networks.The family of a mercenary who surrendered in the DPR hopes for his return. According to him, everything was predictable regarding the verdict, capital punishment, taking into account their crimes, is «logical.» «There is now a month to appeal in cassation. We will also see if they use it or not,» he said. He also noted that neither the Moroccan authorities nor the British authorities had contacted the leadership and law enforcement agencies of the DPR about the fate of the convicted mercenaries. “At the moment, I don’t have a single fact that the British authorities take care of their citizens, are concerned about the fate of their citizens and reach out to anyone in the DPR, be it the leadership of the republic, law enforcement agencies,” Pushilin stressed. On Wednesday, British citizens Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as Moroccan citizen Saadoun Brahim, pleaded guilty to acts aimed at seizing power by force. The relevant article of the Criminal Code of the DPR provides for the death penalty. Aslin also pleaded guilty under the article «Training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities.» The investigation established that foreign mercenaries took part in Ukraine's armed aggression for a forcible seizure of power in the DPR.
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