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Date: Tue Sep 28 2010 - 00:17:49 EDT
Friday, 24 September 2010 10:19
Written by Muhyadin Ahmed Roble
A Kenyan court has sentenced seven Somali pirates to take five years in
jail on Thursday.
The East Africa nation jailed the pirates on charges for attempting to
seize a Spanish ship last year.
The men were handed over to the Kenyan authorities for prosecution after
being arrested in May last year.
They were waiting to hear thier cases in police custody in the Indian Ocean
port of Mombasa.
About 15 pirates are serving jail terms in Kenya and about a hundred are in
custody.
Earlier in September other seven Somali pirates had jailed five years for
attempting to hijack a German ship in March.
In 2006, Kenya sentenced the first Somali pirates to seven years in jail
while early this year another seven were jailed for 20 years.
Kenya and Seychelles are the only African nations prosecuting pirates in
the Horn of Africa nation.
The foreign warships patrolling the waters are now been outwitted by the
pirates who now hijack ships far into the Indian Ocean.
Muhyadin Ahmed Roble
Muhyadin Ahmed Roble is a Somali freelance journalist reporting for Eurasia
Review living in Nairobi. He can be contacted at muhudin01@gmail.com
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