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| Death penalty at stake in prosecution of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine |
| 2022-06-05 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [RIA Novosti] The Prosecutor General's Office of the DPR has submitted to court a criminal case against foreign mercenaries, two citizens of Great Britain and a citizen of the Kingdom of Morocco, the press service of the department said. "The Investigation Department of the General Prosecutor's Office of the DPR has completed the investigation of the criminal case against foreign mercenaries - Sean Pinner and Andrew Hill, as well as Saadun Brahim ...", the message says. They are charged under several articles, namely "commission of a crime by a group of persons...", "forcible seizure of power or forcible retention of power...", "mercenarism", "undertaking training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities." Taking into account wartime, on the basis of the provisions of the criminal law, mercenaries can be sentenced to the death penalty, the Prosecutor General's Office added. The investigation established that the defendants, for a fee, took part on the side of the Ukrainian troops in the operation to forcibly seize power in the DPR. Earlier, the DPR Ombudsman Daria Morozova said that the office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the republic was collecting evidence of the crimes of the armed formations of Ukraine , which would be used in a military tribunal against the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to her, the first "intermediate" meeting of the tribunal may take place at the end of summer, it will be the "Mariupol Tribunal" - by analogy with the tribunals of the Second World War. As Elena Shishkina, chairman of the committee on criminal and administrative legislation of the People's Council of the DPR, noted, not only citizens of Ukraine, but mercenaries from European states, as well as instructors from NATO countries will be in the dock. |
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