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Mum of captured Brit hero Aiden Aslin slams Facebook for refusing to take disturbing video of him bruised and bloodied
THE mum of captured British soldier Aiden Aslin slammed Facebook for refusing to take down disturbing video of him being taunted with the death penalty.
Aiden, 28, was taken prisoner during the siege of Mariupol after volunteering to fight alongside the Ukrainian Army.
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British journalist Graham Phillips released a video showing PoW Aiden bruised and bloodied.
It has been removed by YouTube but is still available on Facebook and has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
Last night, Aiden’s mum Angie Wood pleaded with the social media giant to remove it.
She told TalkTV: “Facebook hasn’t responded to hundreds of people who’ve reported it. It shouldn’t be allowed. It’s a propaganda video.”
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She described Phillips — who used to work for the Russia Today TV channel — as “sick” and said he should be prosecuted for war crimes when he returns to the UK.
She added: “He’s getting paid while promoting it on to Facebook — and making money out of people who are suffering.”
In an interview on The News Desk with Tom Newton Dunn last night, she also revealed Aiden had managed to phone home to his family in Nottingham since being captured. She added: “We were all horrified that he’d obviously had some kind of injury.
“And how did he get that injury? He was asking for me to contact Boris Johnson to get a prison swap done.”
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Aiden’s brother Nathan also called on the Government to get Aiden and fellow Brit soldier Shaun Pinner released.
He said: “You’ve got two British citizens being forced to say whatever the Russians are putting in their mouths at gunpoint.”
Last night, a Meta spokesman said: "We’ve removed the video in question for violating our Privacy Policy."
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