5-year jail for Somali pirate, six other acquitted
The Source: ADEN/hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 07/02/2011
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The Specialized Penal Court in Aden province sentenced on Monday one of Somali pirates to five years in jail and acquitted six others of the charges attributed to them.
The verdict, recited by Head of the Court judge Mohammed al-Abyad, convicted the first defendant Mohamed Ali Saleh Eissa, a Somali national, of abducting a Yemeni boat and using it along with an unknown armed gang in acts of piracy and accordingly he was punished by imprisonment of five years.The six other defendants in the case were acquitted by the court for the lack of evidences on their involvement in a criminal conspiracy to do acts of piracy and hijacking of vessels in the territorial waters of Yemen.The verdict also included the confiscation of weapons and other seizures that were found on the board of the boat in interest of the State.
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