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Ignore Pirates or Face Asylum Claims, UK Says

Posted Apr 13, 08 10:37 AM CDT in Crime & Courts World 

(Newser) – In an odd new take on piracy, the British Royal Navy has been told by the Foreign Office not to detain pirates—or they may seek asylum to escape death sentences in their home countries. It's not a strategy roundly hailed. “These people commit horrendous offenses. It’s a pathetic indictment of what our legal system has come to," complained one politician.

“The solution is not to turn a blind eye but to turn them over to the local authorities." Using high-tech weaponry, modern pirates kill, steal, and ransom ships’ crews, reports the Times of London. French commandos on Friday managed to secure the release of hostages aboard a luxury yacht pirated off the coast of Somalia.

Source Times (UK)

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The merchant vessel Golden Nori is released by pirates off the Somali coast.   (Getty Images)
Pakistani soldiers from the Pakistani warship PNS Babur carry out maneuvers in an inflatable boat in the Arabian sea, following a rash of pirate attacks off the lawless Somali coast.   (AP Photo/Katharine Houreld)
Commando boats arrive at the French cruise ship Le Ponant off Somalia's coast yesterday. Troops swooped in on pirates on the yacht after they released 30 hostages.   (AP Photo/French Defense Ministry, HO)
French commando boat closes in on a yacht seized by pirates off the Somalia coast.   (AP Photo/French Defense Ministry, HO)
Yacht hostages freed by pirates head to safety of a French commando boat off the coast of Somalia.   (AP Photo)
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