{"id":9652,"date":"2010-12-17T17:22:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T14:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=9652"},"modified":"2010-12-17T17:22:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T14:22:28","slug":"9-somali-pirates-sencenced-22-years-in-jail-17122010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/9-somali-pirates-sencenced-22-years-in-jail-17122010\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Somali pirates sencenced 22 years in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/somali-pirate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9653\" title=\"somali pirate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/somali-pirate-280x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/somali-pirate-280x170.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/somali-pirate.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>A court on the island nation of Seychelles has found nine Somali pirates guilty of piracy and sentenced them each to 22 years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Attorney General David Esparon said Friday that the court rejected pirates&#8217; claims of innocence after hearing consistent accounts from witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Esparon said the men hijacked two vessels in March &#8211; a Seychelles fishing boat, Galate, and an Iranian ship, Al-Ahmadi.<\/p>\n<p>The pirates first commandeered Galate to Somalia until it ran out of fuel. They then refueled it after capturing the Iranian ship.<\/p>\n<p>A Seychelles coast guard patrol boat, Topaz, rescued the crew of both vessels on March 29 after exchanging fire with the pirates.<\/p>\n<p>Esparon said 15 suspected Somali pirates are still awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 8)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court on the island nation of Seychelles has found nine Somali pirates guilty of piracy and sentenced them each to 22 years in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":9653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,80,63,14],"tags":[13585,13584,6526,3484],"class_list":["post-9652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-world","tag-22-years-in-jail","tag-guilty-of-piracy","tag-seychelles","tag-somali-pirate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}