Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2012

Britain's anti-piracy 'conveyor belt' stretches from Somalia to Seychelles and back

Britain has already spent £9 million – more than any other nation, and a
quarter of all United Nations Indian Ocean counter-piracy funds – to train
prison staff, help upgrade cells or build new prisons, and to improve local
lawyers’ expertise in the Seychelles, Somalia and Kenya.


That funding is necessary because under European human rights law and
international legal standards, pirates arrested at sea must be transferred
to countries that will give them a fair trial

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