{"id":18507,"date":"2022-06-11T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=18507"},"modified":"2022-06-11T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T08:00:19","slug":"british-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/06\/11\/british-fighters\/","title":{"rendered":"British fighters sentenced to death were &#8220;forced to admit to terror charges.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to reports, Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin contacted a newspaper several weeks ago to provide accounts that contradict their guilty pleas in a sham trial supported by Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, the British fighters sentenced to death in a sham trial supported by Russia may have been duped into admitting to terror charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shaun Pinner, 48, and Aiden Aslin, 28, both pleaded guilty in court in Russia-controlled Donetsk to charges of &#8220;undergoing training with the 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