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| Foreign mercenaries detained in the DPR could face the death penalty |
| 2022-05-28 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [RIA Novosti] The Prosecutor General's Office of the DPR has completed the investigation into the criminal case of foreign mercenaries from the UK and Morocco, they may face the death penalty, Viktor Gavrilov, head of the department for investigating crimes against the peace and security of mankind of the Republic's Prosecutor General's Office, told RIA Novosti. "The Prosecutor General's Office of the Donetsk People's Republic has completed the investigation of a criminal case against a group of foreign mercenaries from Great Britain and Morocco suspected of committing crimes under Part 2 of Article 34 ("Commission of crimes by a group of persons"), Article 323 ("Forcible seizure of power or forcible retention of power "), Article 440 ("Mercenary") of the Criminal Code of the DPR, - said Gavrilov. According to him, the testimony of British citizens Sean Pinner and Andrew Hill, as well as a citizen of the Kingdom of Morocco, Saadoun Brahim, confirmed their guilt. "The criminal case against the mercenaries who took part in the preparation and conduct of hostilities against the Donetsk People's Republic has been fully formed. The case materials have been transferred to one of the republican courts for consideration on the merits, as a result of which, taking into account wartime, the defendants can be capital punishment: the death penalty," Gavrilov said. The British Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin surrendered in Ukraine in mid-April. Major General Igor Konashenkov , spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry , said that under international humanitarian law, mercenaries cannot claim combatant status, so "the best thing that awaits them is a long prison term." Later, Pinner on the TV channel "Russia 1" said that he and Aslin turned to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a request to assist in their exchange for opposition Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 They're not getting much love from the Western press either these days. Washington Post dispatch this afternoon about how American mercenaries got the shit beaten out of them. Pathetic, actually. Ukraine mercenaries are coming home, reckoning with difficult fight Americans and other foreign fighters who’ve taken up arms against Russia describe glaring disparities in what they expected and what they experienced By Alex Horton, Razzan Nakhlawi and Souad Mekhennet THE WASHINGTON POST May 28, 2022 at 7:07 p.m. EDT In interviews with The Washington Post, foreign fighters from the United States and elsewhere described glaring disparities between what they expected the war to be like and what they experienced. They recalled going into battle underequipped and outgunned... ...the conflict has drawn Western military veterans who either have never deployed into combat previously or have experienced only asymmetrical insurgencies — not this type of war, with contested airspace, unrelenting rocket bombardment, and swarms of drones with sophisticated thermal targeting technology. |
| Posted by: Oye Como Va 2022-05-28 22:48 |
| #5 /\ ... fighters' (un-quote) get. |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-05-28 22:05 |
| #4 Funny how *spit* mercenaries *spit* don't get the love and legal protections from "international law experts" that (quote) globetrotting 'freedom fighters' (un-quote). Odd, isn't it? |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-05-28 22:03 |
| #3 ..it appears the group in Syria got that penalty applied to it (when they decide to go against a still 'real' military). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-05-28 08:42 |
| #2 So this applies to the Wagner Group, too? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2022-05-28 05:00 |
| #1 There is no such thing as the Donetsk People's Republic. |
| Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Thromons3612 2022-05-28 00:50 |