Anonymous ID: 511c0f June 9, 2022, 7:20 a.m. No.16419244   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9254

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>Foreign Mercenaries Sentenced to Death in Donetsk Supreme Court

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Two British soldiers sentenced to death by Russia in occupied eastern Ukraine

CAPTURED BRITONS Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin and Moroccan national Saadoun Brahim have been sentenced to death by a court in the rebel-held Donetsk People's Republic for fighting for Ukraine.

The two British men, who were detained in April, had both been in the country since 2018 and insist they were legitimately serving with Ukraine's military – so should be protected as prisoners of war by the Geneva Convention.

 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1623162/British-soldier-Aiden-Aslin-Shaun-Pinner-death-sentence-Russia-Ukraine-war-latest

 

Under the Foreign Enlistment Act it is illegal for British citizens to serve in the armed forces of a foreign country. Being paid by Ukraine means that they are de facto mercenaries.

 

Foreign Enlistment Act 1870

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/33-34/90

 

Illegal Enlistment

4 Penalty on enlistment in service of foreign state.

If any person, without the license of Her Majesty, being a British subject, within or without Her Majesty’s dominions, accepts or agrees to accept any commission or engagement in the military or naval service of any foreign state at war with any foreign state at peace with Her Majesty, and in this Act referred to as a friendly state, or whether a British subject or not within Her Majesty’s dominions, induces any other person to accept or agree to accept any commission or engagement in the military or naval service of any such foreign state as aforesaid,—

He shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall be punishable by fine and imprisonment, or either of such punishments, at the discretion of the court before which the offender is convicted; . . .

5 Penalty on leaving Her Majesty’s dominions with intent to serve a foreign state.

If any person, without the license of Her Majesty, being a British subject, quits or goes on board any ship with a view of quitting Her Majesty’s dominions, with intent to accept any commission or engagement in the military or naval service of any foreign state at war with a friendly state, or, whether a British subject or not, within Her Majesty’s dominions, induces any other person to quit or to go on board any ship with a view of quitting Her Majesty’s dominions with the like intent,—

He shall be guilty of an offence against this Act, and shall be punishable by fine and imprisonment, or either of such punishments, at the discretion of the court before which the offender is convicted; . . .