UN Security Council to Consider Plans for Specialized Somali Courts to Try Pirates

by Gary Kopycinski on April 11, 2011

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NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–11 April 2011 â Recognizing the need for further steps to boost anti-piracy efforts, the Security Council today decided to urgently consider the establishment of specialized Somali courts to try suspected pirates both in the Somalia and in the region.