British citizens Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner and Moroccan Saaudun Brahim.AP Photo Robert Goldman, American University The sentencing to death of three foreign fighters captured by Russian troops and handed over to authorities in a breakaway region in Ukraine presents a serious deviation from international law – one that in itself represents a war crime. Sentencing came on June 9, 2022, at the end of what has been dismissed by observers in the West as a “show trial” involving the three – two British citizens and a Moroccan national in Ukraine fighting alongside the country’s troops. In many wa…
