Aiden says he was 'treated worse than a dog'
Released prisoner of war Aiden Aslin has spoken for the first time after being freed from five months of solitary confinement inflicted by Russian-backed forces in Ukraine.
He had been held in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol back in April, where he was fighting as a marine in the Ukraine defence effort against Russia.Aiden first moved to Ukraine in 2018, meeting his fiancee and becoming a citizen of the country before his capture.that he was beaten and stabbed, before being asked if he would like a “quick death or a beautiful death”.
Along with Shaun Pinner, 48, and Moroccan national Brahim Saadoun, Aslin was put on trial at an internationally unrecognised court in the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic – where the trio were ‘Aiden Aslin , Shaun Pinner and Saadun Brahim were told they would face the death penalty after being sentenced in an internationally unrecognised court in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
The 28-year-old spoke about his living conditions during the ordeal, saying: “We couldn’t go to the toilet properly because we didn’t have a toilet.”
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