Shaun Pinner, 50, sued the Kremlin for committing war crimes against him. He claimed he was consistently and repeatedly tortured by his Russian captorsA former British soldier who fought alongside Ukrainian troops before being captured and tortured by Russian soldiers has won a court case against the Kremlin.
Pinner said he was brutally beaten, electrocuted and starved by his captors over five months in captivity - treatment he said infringed his human rights and entitled him to compensation. British citizens Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner and Moroccan Saaudun Brahim attend a sentencing hearing at the Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, 09 June 2022
'When Russia comes back into the real world they are going to have to settle these legal cases... It's not about now, but the future, next year, 10 years, 20 years' time.' But they pointed out that, in the years since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian oligarchs have routinely used English courts to settle legal disputes in all parts of their lives.As a result, Pinner's lawyers say there is a decades-long precedent for Russian judges following orders made by English courts - and the rulings could be meaningful in years to come.
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