120 Somali Nationals to Plead Guilty to Piracy

[SuldaanOfSanaag]

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By Wendy Laursen 2015-11-09 01:59:09

The Somali government has told an Indian court that close to 120 of its nationals undergoing trial in Mumbai intend to plead guilty to charges of piracy. The pirates want to submit a guilty plea in the hope of expediting the trial, reports the New Indian Express.

The men were arrested between January and March in 2011 by a joint force from the Indian Navy and Coast Guard for hijacking two ships and holding the crew to ransom. Two fishermen, from Pakistan and Iran, were killed as a result of the hijacking.

In one incident, pirates held 20 fishermen from Thailand and Myanmar hostage on the mother vessel Prantalay 14. As a result of Navy and Coast Guard action, the hostages were rescued and 28 pirates arrested.

A second incident involved two vessels, Vega 5 and Morteza, with 77 pirates arrested.

The move to make a guilty plea came after embassy officials visited the jail where the men are being held. The trial has been underway for three years. Around 80 witnesses have deposed in the court proceedings so far.

Judge Abhinandan J Patangankar of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act Court will make a decision regarding the guilty plea on Friday. If the plea is accepted by the court, the pirates will be convicted and can undergo the jail term in their own country.

[RoobleAlWaliid]

Quick move you made there bro...

[TheFuturist]

Aabohood wasooyinkaa hindidu iyagaa badeenna xadda and they have the nerve to call us pirates. But I suppose lax waliba halkay is dhigto, ayaa lagu qalaa. Our current state is our own doing

[TheFuturist]

The Somali government has told an Indian court that close to 120 of its nationals undergoing trial in Mumbai intend to plead guilty to charges of piracy.

f-king useless spineless government, nacadali ha korto

Walahi I would have said to all countries in the world that hold so called Somali pirates "deport them to Somalia so we can charge them and they can stand trial there". Then when they set foot in Somalia, waxaan ku odhan lahaa: "walaaleyaal dhulkiinii hooyo ayaad joogtaan, soo dhowaado, rag xor ayaa tihiin, hooya $100 each oo reerihiinii ku noqada".

[TheFuturist]

I hope they don't catch anything in that filthy country

http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures ... tions.html

[SuldaanOfSanaag]

Quick move you made there bro...

[DR-YALAXOOW]

Somali goverment did great job becouse those skinny pirates will plea guilty in order to speed the court process . After they plea guilty they will be sent back to somalia to service jail time. That means they will be realised after they come back home. If somali goverment did not intervene those 120 pirates they would have rotten in indian Jail .
Viva Somali goverment

[TheFuturist]

Somali goverment did great job becouse those skinny pirates will plea guilty in order to speed the court process . After they plea guilty they will be sent back to somalia to service jail time. That means they will be realised after they come back home. If somali goverment did not intervene those 120 pirates they would have rotten in indian Jail .
Viva Somali goverment

If that is what they are doing then I support them 100%

[GAMES]

Send them to Puntland to serve their sentence.

LooL