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European Court calls on Moscow to halt execution of Moroccan captured in Dontesk

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has called on Russia to prevent the execution of Moroccan Brahim Saadoun sentenced to death in a pro-Moscow separatist region of Ukraine for fighting with Ukrainian forces. Russia “should ensure that the death penalty imposed on the applicant was not carried out,” the court said on Thursday in […]

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Morocco reacts to arrest of its national in Donetsk

Morocco has made its first reaction to the arrest of a Moroccan young man by pro-Russian forces in Donetsk where he received the death sentence. Brahim Saadoun, aged 21, together with two Britons were indicted by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic to the death penalty on mercenary charges. Saadoun “is imprisoned by an […]