United Nations: Security Council Resolution Empowers States Combating Piracy...
(Jan. 8, 2009) On December 16, 2008, the United Nations Security Council adopted its fourth resolution since June on combating piracy off Somalia's coast. Unlike the others, however, the latest...
View ArticleDenmark: Dutch Requested to Allow Danish Prosecution of Suspected Somali Pirates
(Jan. 12, 2009) It was reported on January 3, 2009, that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark has contacted Dutch officials to clear Danish prosecution of five suspected Somali pirates currently...
View ArticleUnited Nations: Anti-Piracy Agreement Signed
(Feb. 5, 2009) Nine countries in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea region have signed a Code of Conduct designed to increase cooperation against the piracy off the coast of Somalia. Djibouti, Ethiopia,...
View ArticleItaly: Fight Against Piracy
(Sept. 9, 2009) On July 22, 2009, the Italian Parliament converted Decree-Law No. 61 of June 15, 2009, into Law No. 100, approving urgent provisions on combating piracy. It came into force on the day...
View ArticleKenya: Court Rules Kenya Lacks Jurisdiction over Offenses Committed on High Seas
(Nov. 12, 2010) On November 9, 2010, the Kenyan High Court, Mombasa Division, terminated for want of jurisdiction a lower court's criminal case against nine Somali citizens charged with piracy. The...
View ArticleKenya: Alleged Somali Pirates Acquitted for Lack of Evidence
(Nov. 12, 2010) It was reported on November 5, 2010, that a Kenyan magistrate found not guilty 17 Somalis who had been accused of piracy in connection with an attack against the MV Amira, an...
View ArticleSomalia: Special Courts and Anti-Piracy Law Proposed
(Jan. 27, 2011) On January 25, 2011, the United Nations special envoy on maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia put forward a proposal for the establishment of special courts to try piracy cases...
View ArticleMalaysia: Seven Alleged Pirates Charged with Firearms Offenses
(Feb. 16, 2011) On February 11, 2011, Malaysian prosecutors filed charges against seven Somali nationals who had been captured by Malaysian naval forces in the Gulf of Aden on January 20, 2011. (Seven...
View ArticleUnited Nations: Security Council Resolution Considers Specialized Courts to...
(Apr. 18, 2011) On April 11, 2011, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), cognizant of the continuing incidents of armed robbery and other violence against ships off the coast of Somalia and of...
View ArticleSomalia: Puntland Establishes Piracy Courts and Prisons
(Apr. 20, 2011) On April 18, 2011, Reuters reported that Somalia's Puntland semi-autonomous regional state will soon put in place special prisons and courts to try pirates in the Indian Ocean region....
View ArticleKenya: Appellate Court Rules Kenyan Courts Do Have Jurisdiction over Offenses...
(Oct. 25, 2012) On October 18, 2012, the Kenyan Court of Appeal ruled that Kenyan courts have jurisdiction over cases involving persons suspected of international piracy. The ruling overturns a 2010...
View ArticleAfrica: New Regional Anti-Piracy Agreement
(July 9, 2013) On June 25, 2013, in an effort to help prevent piracy and other illegal maritime actions in West and Central Africa, participants in the <?Summit of the Gulf of Guinea Heads of State...
View ArticleIran: New Copyright Law to Be Submitted to Parliament
(Nov. 7, 2017) Iran’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has announced it is working closely with the Parliament Research Center and other relevant agencies to formulate a new...
View ArticlePhilippines/Indonesia: Agreement on Border Issues
(Feb. 28, 2018) Following a meeting of high-ranking officials of the Philippines and Indonesia, it was announced on January 10, 2018, that the two countries had agreed to a number of measures aimed at...
View ArticleEuropean Union: Committee Draft of EU Copyright Directive Rejected by...
(Aug. 31, 2018) On July 5, 2018, the European Parliament voted to halt the passage of the proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (the Directive), voting instead to reopen debate...
View ArticleUnited States: Belarusian Government Officials Indicted on Air Piracy Charges
On January 20, 2022, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced in a press release that four Belarusian government officials had been indicted for conspiracy to commit air...
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