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The Netherlands Rotterdam District Court on Thursday sentenced a group of Somali pirates to five years in prison for hijacking a cargo ship registered in the Netherlands...

A spokesperson for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) piracy division announced Tuesday that donors will spend more than USD $9.3 million to fund courts in Kenya and Seychelles that prosecute suspected Somali pirates [JURIST...

JURIST Guest Columnist Itzchak Kornfeld of the Faculty of Law at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem says that Israel is in a state of war with Hamas and, pursuant to the UN Charter, has the right to self-defense, including the...

Nine Somali men accused of piracy and other charges pleaded not guilty at their arraignment Friday. US federal prosecutors charged 11 suspected Somali pirates last month. One of the 11 pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, and the...

The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously approved Resolution 1918 , calling on member states to criminalize piracy under their domestic laws and urging Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to consider an international tribunal for prosecuting piracy. In...

The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously approved Resolution 1918 , calling on member states to criminalize piracy under their domestic laws and urging Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to consider an international tribunal for prosecuting piracy. In...

US federal prosecutors have charged a group of 11 suspected Somali pirates in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia , according to indictments unsealed Friday. The US District Attorney...

A US government official said Wednesday that at least five accused Somali pirates will face charges in the US , according to the Associated Press. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity while the...

Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula said Thursday that Kenya will no longer accept Somalian pirate cases to be tried in its courts. Wetangula stated that the large number of Somalian pirate cases referred to Kenya has...

2009 marked the worst year for maritime piracy in six years, according to a report issued Thursday by the International Chamber of Commerce International Maritime Bureau (IMB) . The total reported incidents of...