Court orders France to compensate pirates

摘要

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that France should recompense nine Somali nationals who hijacked French-registered vessels off Somalia due to judicial delays. The court decided that France had not sufficiently guarenteed the pirates' liberty rights as they had been taken into custody for 48-hou rs when they arrived in the country instead of being 'promptly' brought before a legal authority. This contravened the European Human Rights Convention as the Somalians had already been detained for4-6 days prior to their extradition to France.