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| Somali Pirates Sentenced To 10 Years |
| By english.cri.cn |
| Published: 07/28/2010 |
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Seychelles has sentenced 11 Somali pirates to a decade in prison for attempting to hijack a coast guard in December last year, a regional maritime official confirmed on Tuesday. Andrew Mwangura, the East Africa Coordinator of Seafarers Assistance Program (SAP) said the ruling by the Supreme Court in Victoria, the first of its kind in the Indian Ocean archipelago, was delivered on Monday. Mwangura said the 11 pirates were arrested inside Seychelles' territorial waters when they attacked a coast guard vessel with automatic weapons last December. "Eleven pirates were sentenced to serve a 10 (years) jail term in Seychelles on Monday. The pirates attacked a Seychellois coastguard patrol boat, Topaz in December last year," Mwangura told Xinhua by telephone early Tuesday. Read More. |
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