A Nigerian court convicted 10 men of piracy under a new law designed to thwart maritime crime in the Gulf of Guinea.
A federal judge in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, handed down 12-year prison sentences to the pirates, said Labaran Magaji, the prosecuting lawyer. The West African nation’s navy captured the men in May 2020 after they boarded a Chinese fishing vessel off the Ivory Coast and kidnapped the crew.
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