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| Two Pirates Get Jail in Yemen |
| 2011-05-04 |
| [Yemen Post] Yemen sentenced on Monday two Africans to ten years in prison after convicting them of committing pirate acts in its territorial waters. The Specialized Penal Court in Hadramout province ruled that the two Somalis along with others had intercepted an Indian vessel and a Yemeni fishing boat under gun threat before their arrest last year. The act harmed Yemen's economic position and the safety of international vessels passing in regional and international waterways, it said. The two were arrested in February last year. In recent years, Yemen sentenced many African pirates to jail terms and some to severe sentences including death as piracy has been stepped up in the Gulf of Aden and off Somalia. |
| Posted by:Fred |