The President of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pishilin, has refused to pardon the Moroccan Brahim Saadoun and two British citizens who were sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of that self-proclaimed nation. They will be shot, unless there is some solution in this regard, since the resolution is firm.
The Court “convicted” them of having “participated in exchange for remuneration in the Ukrainian armed aggression to seize power by force in the Donetsk People’s Republic”, and sentenced them to death by firing squad. verdict of June 9, that the three sentenced to death could be pardoned, the leader of the pro-Russian separatists indicated in a press release: “I must stick to the judgment of the Court and legality.” provisions, and taking into account the crimes they committed, I see no basis or reason to dictate the clemency decision.”
The Donetsk separatists consider the Moroccan student a “foreign mercenary” despite the fact that he has Ukrainian nationality. it is “a flagrant violation of international law, humanitarian law in many respects.”
The three people are being prosecuted in the DPR which, together with the one in Lugansk, constitute two breakaway states of Ukraine that were recognized by Russian President Vladimir Putin in February 2022, the Moroccan press reports.
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