The Russian Navy released all ten suspects it apprehended on the oil tanker Moscow University, which was hijacked by pirates 350 miles off of the African coast. A Navy spokesman explained that the decision to release the suspected pirates was due to “imperfections” in international law. One problem was that the detainees declared that they were only hostages taken by the real pirates, who supposedly forced them to participate in the attack on the tanker and then escaped when the Russian Navy arrived. The suspects were disarmed and their navigation equipment removed, after which they were put into an inflatable boat and left in the open sea.
http://lenta.ru/news/2010/05/07/release/
UPDATE of 11 May 2010
Defense Ministry Source: Pirates Probably Died
http://lenta.ru/news/2010/05/11/pirates/
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