Subscribe to RSS feedSuspected pirates held, but no one wants to prosecute
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David Osler, London
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Dec 24, 2009 11:56 AM
THE NETHERLANDS has released 13 suspected Somali pirates held on a Dutch warship, on the grounds that no country was willing to prosecute them.
The men were put back on their speedboat with supplies of food and fuel, it was announced.
A Dutch defence ministry statement said the European Union had decided that it had to free the detainees because it was impossible to...
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