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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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David Bond

UK brands death sentences on British soldiers held in occupied Ukraine an ‘egregious breach of Geneva Convention’

Anger was growing on Friday over the fate of two Britons sentenced to death by a “kangaroo court” in occupied Ukraine.

Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, were captured while fighting for Ukrainian forces and convicted on Thursday of carrying out terrorist acts at a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, the eastern region of Ukraine now at the centre of the war.

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