British citizen Sean Pinner, accused of participating as a mercenary in hostilities on the territory of the DPR. Archive photoMOSCOW, June 17A lawyer for mercenary Sean Pinner convicted in the DPR, Yulia Tserkovnikova, said that after the appeal was considered by the court, an alternative to the death penalty could be life imprisonment. «We can consider changing the punishment to life imprisonment. But the decision is made by the DPR court,» she said in an interview with Ukraina.ru. On June 9, three foreigners captured in Mariupol were sentenced to death in Donetsk — two British citizens Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as a Moroccan citizen Saadoun Brahim. All three pleaded guilty to Ukraine's armed aggression aimed at seizing power in the DPR.
