Somali pirates to serve the remainder of their jail sentences back home, the government said, taking the total transferred to more than 90.The convicted pirates, who had been tried on the Indian Ocean archipelago, were flown back to Somalia's northern Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
region, the interior ministry said in a statement. They add to nine flown back last week.
"The prisoners will... serve out the remainder of their sentences at the newly built Garowe prison in Puntland," the statement read.
One prisoner has just a year to go in jail, while others will remain behind bars until 2025.
"To date, the Seychelles authorities have transferred over 90 prisoners," the statement added.
Pirates have been sent to both Puntland and self-declared northwestern Somaliland.
The Seychelles, a 115-island archipelago, agreed in 2010 to accept suspected pirates incarcerated
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
on the high seas and put them on trial.
However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
their tiny prison has been increasingly overcrowded with convicted or suspected pirates.