Britons, Moroccan appeal against death sentence in Ukraine

• Two Britons given death sentence by court in separatist-controlled Ukraine.
• Both submitted their appeal on monday.
• Aiden Aslin and Brahim Saadun were accused of acting as mercenaries.

British citizen Aiden Aslin and Moroccan Brahim Saadun, who were given death sentence by a court in separatist-controlled Ukraine, submitted their appeals on Monday.

In June, Aslin, Saadun and another British citizen, Shaun Pinner, were accused of acting as mercenaries for Ukraine, Their verdicts came of death sentence by separatist authorities in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.

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The Supreme Court of the breakaway territory said in a statement on Monday that Saadun had filed an appeal.

Separately, a representative of the separatist statelet’s court told state news agency RIA Novosti that Aslin had also lodged an appeal.

Britain has expressed fury over the death sentences handed to the two Britons in the case.

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