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SOMALIA

Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 28, 2013
The long arm of the antipiracy law
Captured half a world away, off the coast of Oman in the Indian Ocean, four Somalis are sent to Tokyo to stand trial for piracy after a failed attempt to hijack an oil tanker. Three have already been convicted by the Tokyo District Court.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 2013
Somali teenager gets five to nine for piracy
An 18-year-old Somali is sentenced to five to nine years by the Tokyo District Court for boarding and attempting to hijack a Bahama-registered oil tanker off Africa in March 2011.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 2, 2013
Somali pirate trial lay judges felt global duty
The lay judges who sentenced two Somali pirates to 10 years in prison Friday said that while they had initial qualms about a case they considered foreign, they came to believe it was their duty as part of the international community to try the defendants.

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