Moroccan public push for Ukraine death sentence citizen’s release
Al JazeeraMoroccan government silent after Moroccan-Ukrainian Brahim Saadoun was sentenced to death by Ukrainian separatists. In the only comments made by Rabat on the issue, diplomatic sources from the Moroccan embassy in Kyiv were quoted late on Monday by the kingdom’s official news outlet as saying that Saadoun was detained while wearing a Ukrainian army fatigue as a member of that country’s marine forces. The unnamed diplomatic sources’ brief comments added that Saadoun is being held by “an entity unrecognised by the United Nations or the Moroccan kingdom”. He was brainwashed and exploited to be thrown in a battlefield in which he is to have no gains nor interests in Donbas.” Amina Bou Ayash, the head of the National Human Rights Council, an independent Moroccan entity that constitutionally has oversight over government practices, called on Monday for Moroccan authorities to intervene in Saadoun’s case. “What matters now and what is most important is to protect Brahim Saadon wherever he is, from the death sentence, as he’s a Moroccan citizen,” Bou Ayash was quoted by local media as saying.
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