The defense of Aiden Aslin, a British citizen who had been fighting for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and sentenced to death by a Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) court on June 9, has appealed the conviction, his lawyer, Pavel Kosovan, told TASS on Monday.
Kosovan revealed that the defense is contesting two counts of the verdict â âcommission of crimes by a group of personsâ and âforcible seizure of power or violent retention of powerâ â and to dismiss the case in this part âdue to the absence of corpus delicti in the actions of the defendant.â
Aslin was found guilty on three counts â the third was âmercenarism.â The Donetsk Peopleâs Republicâs Criminal Code provides for punishment under this article for a period of up to seven years…
