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) to change the sentence regarding the application of punishment against my client in the form of an exceptional measure to life imprisonment,” TASS quotes her.
On June 9, a court in the Donetsk People's Republic issued death sentences to British citizens Sean Pinner and Aiden Eslin, as well as Moroccan citizen Brahim Saadoun, who fought on the side of Ukraine.
Elena Shishkina, chairman of the Committee on Criminal and Administrative Legislation of the People's Council of the DPR, said that the DPR parliament is considering the possibility of abolishing the death penalty as the highest penalty after the tribunal over Ukrainian prisoners of war.