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Dutch court convicts 5 Somalis in piracy trial (AP)

June 17th, 2010

An armed Somali pirate is pictured on a beach in Hobyo town in northeastern Somalia. A Dutch court has sentenced five Somali pirates, the first to stand trial in Europe, to five years in prison for attacking a Dutch Antilles-flagged ship in 2009.(AFP/File/Mohamed Dahir)AP - A Dutch court has convicted five Somalis of piracy and sentenced them to five years each in prison in the first piracy case to come to trial in Europe.


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