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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kim Sengupta

The oligarch who could hold key to fate of Britons facing death sentence

AP

Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner were supposed to receive the protection of the Geneva Convention as members of the armed forces of a sovereign country, Ukraine.

They have been sentenced to death after a show trial in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), a “state” recognised only by Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

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