14 June, 2010

Somali pirates on trial in Holland

Europe's first piracy trial in modern times is under way in Holland, as five Somalis face the 17th century charge of "sea robbery".Among those taking a close interest is Sunday Telegraph correspondent Colin Freeman, who spent six weeks as a hostage after being kidnapped while reporting from Somalia's pirate coast. But ,as he reveals here in a report from the court in Rotterdam, the days when ...

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