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On June 6, the Supreme Court of the Donetsk People’s Republic entered into an examination of criminal cases against two mercenaries from Britain and one from Morocco detained in Eastern Ukraine. The head of the DPR Denis Pushilin confirmed that capital punishment for foreign mercenaries is not excluded.
The British mercenaries appealed to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a request to exchange them, but London refused to help them, as there should be no British citizens fighting in Ukraine.
Shaun Pinner
Aiden Daniel John Mark Aslin
Saadoun Brahim
The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Donetsk People’s Republic has previously completed the investigation of a criminal case against mercenaries from Britain ( Shaun Pinner and Aiden Daniel John Mark Aslin) and Morocco (Saadoun Brahim). They are charged with participating in the preparation and conduct of hostilities against the DPR, as well as “mercenary activities and the commission by a group of persons by prior agreement of actions aimed at forcibly seizing power and forcibly changing the constitutional order of the DPR.”
According to the Criminal Code of the Republic, mercenary activity is punishable by imprisonment for 3 to 7 years. Forcible seizure of power in the DPR is punished by imprisonment from 12 to 20 years, and in wartime they can be replaced by the death penalty. Mercenary activity is recognized as a crime by international law and the Geneva Convention does not apply to mercenaries.
