Yemen court sentences six pirates to death

SIX SOMALIS were sentenced to death last week by a Yemeni state court after being found guilty of hijacking a product tanker in 2009, with a further six given prison terms of 10 years in connection with the same crime.

Substantial fines were also levied.
Separately, another alleged pirate faced a court hearing in the US.
The trial in Sana’a related to the seizure of a vessel by the pirates in April last year, which was rapidly recaptured by Yemeni...

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