(Reuters) – The father of a Moroccan man sentenced to death by a courtroom in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) on mercenary prices stated his son must be handled as a prisoner of conflict as he’s a Ukrainian nationwide who handed himself in voluntarily.
Morocco-born Brahim Saadoun and Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner had been discovered responsible of “mercenary actions and committing actions aimed toward seizing energy and overthrowing the constitutional order” of the DPR, Russian media stated final week.
The three males had been captured whereas preventing for Ukraine in opposition to Russia and Russian-backed forces.
The Moroccan fighter obtained Ukrainian nationality in 2020 after present process a 12 months of army coaching as a requirement to entry aerospace know-how research at a college in Kiev, his father Tahar Saadoun stated in an electronic mail to Reuters.
He handed himself in “voluntarily” and must be handled as a “prisoner of conflict”, the father stated.
The sentence will likely be appealed, he stated.
“We as a household endure from the absence of contact with the lawyer to change authorized info and this provides to our ordeal,” he stated.
(Reporting by Ahmed Eljechtimi; Editing by Toby Chopra)
