[News] Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Moroccan Man Pleads Guilty, Could Face Death Penalty

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Rabat - A Moroccan arrested by Russian troops could face the death penalty for fighting on Ukraine’s side against Russia.

 
Reuters reported on Wednesday that the Moroccan -- Brahim Saadoun -- and two British citizens could be sentenced to death after pleading guilty.

Russia’s RIA news agency published a video showing the three defendants in a cage inside a courtroom.

The Russian news agency said that Brahim Saadoun and Shaun Pinner, one of the two British prisoners, pleaded guilty to “actions aimed at the violent seizure of power.”

The video also shows the second  British defendant, Aiden Aslin, pleading guilty to his involvement with some kind of weapons and explosives regiment on the Ukrainian side of the ongoing war.

 
The Russian agency said that the charges could lead to death penalty sentences for the three men.

The trial of the three men is taking place in Donetsk, an industrial city in Eastern Ukraine that claimed independence at the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Brahim Saadoun was arrested in April, with several Russian outlets sharing a video of the Moroccan man being interrogated by Russian soldiers.

Following his arrest, RunNews 24, a Russian channel, reported that Sadun was “operating in the Ukrainian army under contract.”

Prior to joining Ukraine’s resistance forces before Russia invaded the country in late February, the young Moroccan man was studying at the Faculty of Aerodynamic and Space Technologies at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI).

 
RUNEWS24 quoted him as saying he was frightened when he was arrested by Russian troops. “The most terrible thing was to realize that he was a few meters away from an enemy  that he had previously seen through binoculars,” he said.

Morocco’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not issued any communique regarding the arrest of the Moroccan man.

Meanwhile, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has denounced the Donetsk court's decision, emphasizing that prisoners “should not be prosecuted for participation in hostilities.”

 

 

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