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Morocco, Rabat (AP) — Faces execution after being captured by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was sued by a Moroccan father on Monday, intervened "as a father" to save his son from the shooting corps.
"I want to get his son back, like any other father," Tahel Sadung told reporters in Rabat, the capital of Morocco.
Saadoun also called on the Moroccan government to negotiate with two British men, Aiden Aslin and Sean Pinner, on behalf of his 21-year-old son Brahim, who was sentenced to death on June 9. I did. They are the first foreign fighters sentenced by rebels backed by Russia in Ukraine.
A court in the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk convicted all three terrorisms and sought to upset the constitutional order. They are given a month to appeal and could otherwise be executed in early July.
The proceedings were fake and accused by the West of violating international law during the war, but the ruling was upheld by Russian authorities.
Saadoun's father claimed that his son was not a mercenary, as the court claimed, but he was in the Ukrainian regular army and when he was captured he was in the official Ukrainian military uniform. A number belonging to the Ukrainian government who wore a weapon with a serial.
Natalia Nikorowa, the self-proclaimed "foreign minister" of the Donetsk Republic, told Russian state television on Monday that none of the three accused men had yet applied for amnesty.
His father said his son's local lawyer would file an appeal without providing a date if things settled down a bit. Aslin's lawyer said the Britons were pessimistic about his outlook and British officials had not contacted the DPR about the appeal.
Saadoun's father wrote to Putin and the leaders of the Donetsk Republic, stating that he sought intervention on behalf of his son.
"I am calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to use NGOs and humanitarian organizations to intervene as his father," said Tahel Sadun. "Russia is responsible because it supports the Donetsk Republic."
Morocco's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement earlier this month that Saadoun acquired Ukraine's citizenship, "at his own free will. He enlisted in the Ukrainian army and said he was "imprisoned by an entity not recognized by the United Nations." Both the United Nations and Morocco. He did not comment on his final efforts to release him.
The family has provided Brahim Sadung with his own lawyer and is about to visit him in prison. They haven't talked to him since he was arrested.
"I'm ready to meet him and take his first plane to take him home," his father said. Follow AP's coverage of the war between Russia and Ukraine at
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