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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14 June, 2010
Somali pirates on trial in Holland
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