A suspected Somali pirate leader appeared for a detention hearing in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Wednesday after his March 8 indictment was unsealed. In his announcement, US...
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Maritime piracy at all-time high, Somalia waters driving explosion: report
International maritime piracy reached an all-time high in the first quarter of 2011, says a report released Thursday by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau (IMB) . The ICC's piracy...
UN Security Council to consider special maritime piracy courts
The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Monday to consider creating new laws, courts and prisons specialized to address the growing problem of piracy off the coast of Somalia....
A Somali pirate was sentenced by the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday to 25 years in prison for attacking a Danish ship off the coast of Somalia in 2008,...
Somaliland , an unrecognized independent region in northern Somalia , opened a maximum security prison for pirates on Tuesday. The prison, refurbished by a USD $1.5 million grant from...
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia sentenced five Somali pirates to life sentences on Monday for attacking the USS Nicholas . Maritime piracy carries a mandatory sentence of life in...
A grand jury in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Thursday indicted 14 suspects for overtaking a yacht containing four Americans. The Americans, taken as hostages, were later killed by the pirates,...
The Somali Parliament on Tuesday rejected legislation designed to combat piracy . The bill, introduced last week by government officials, seeks to criminalize piracy and improve internal mechanisms for trying alleged offenders. Lawmakers expressed reservations...
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Monday sentenced Somali citizen Jama Idle Ibrahim to 30 years in prison for an April attack on the USS Ashland in...
A jury for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Wednesday convicted five Somali men on charges of piracy , the first such conviction in the US in nearly 200 years....
