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Citizen of the Kingdom of Morocco Saadoun Brahim. Archival photoDONETSK, June 1The defense of a mercenary from Morocco, Brahim Saadoun, who was sentenced to death in the DPR, filed a cassation appeal to reduce the sentence, his lawyer Elena Vesnina told RIA Novosti on Friday. — she said. In Donetsk on June 9, three foreigners captured in Mariupol were sentenced to death — 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. Aslin also pleaded guilty under the article «Training in order to carry out terrorist activities.» According to the laws of the DPR, the verdict can be challenged within a month. Pinner's defense filed an appeal against the verdict. The official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said that the mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine are not combatants, and «the best thing that awaits them is a long term in prison.»The father of the Moroccan sentenced to death asked Putin to pardon his son