Aiden Aslin, a British prisoner freed in eastern Ukraine during an exchange, revealed in his first interview since his release last Wednesday that his captors tortured him, stabbed him in the back and forced him to sing the Russian national anthem. to read
Asselin, who was released along with four other Britons detained by pro-Russian forces, told The Sun newspaper on Sunday that interrogators had tortured him and threatened him with death.
He also confirmed to this English newspaper that during the interrogation he was repeatedly beaten with a stick and at one point he fell to the ground after being hit in the forehead so that an officer stood by him and told him: I am dead. I am you
“He pointed at my back. He showed me his knife and I realized he stabbed me,” Aselin added, showing several scars on his back.
But when his executioner asked him if he wanted a quick death or a beautiful death, he replied, “A quick death,” to which the reply was, “No, you will die a beautiful death.”
Asselin said he was kept in solitary confinement in a small cell with lice and cockroaches and no daylight, where he was “treated worse than a dog”.
In addition, the newspaper reported that his captors “played the Russian national anthem and ordered him to stand up and repeat the words or he would be beaten again.”
They also ordered him to chant “Glory of Russia” whenever they opened the door of his cell.
Aslin, 28, from Nottinghamshire in central England, was living in Ukraine and serving in the country’s marines when the Russian military operation began in February.
The young man was arrested during the clashes, and in June a separatist court in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, sentenced him to death for being a mercenary.
However, the mediation of the Saudi Crown Prince led to the release of 10 prisoners from Morocco, America, Britain, Sweden and Croatia, who entered Riyadh, the capital of this country, on the 21st of this month.
Source: Lebanon Debate
