Six Somali pirates were jailed by a Somaliland court for capturing an Italian vessel in April 2008 and receiving a $3m ransom.
The Berbera regional court gave five of the pirates eight-year jail terms, while a sixth received a sentence of five years after he confessed to the crime.
The men were captured by Somaliland’s coast guard on 24 March near the coastal town of Maydh.
In March, Somaliland, a breakaway enclave in northern Somalia, opened a maximum-security prison built with United Nations funding to incarcerate convicted pirates.
