On January 20, prosecutors from the United States charged four Belarusian officials with aircraft piracy after diverting a flight to the Belarussian capital Minsk to arrest opposition journalist Raman Pratasevich, according to Reuters.
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With at least nine vessels attacked and 89 crew hijacked for ransom at the end of 2019, the Gulf of Guinea is now considered one of the most dangerous routes for international shipping.
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Southeast Asia, despite common misconceptions, is actually the world’s most active piracy zone. The UN declared the waters of Southeast Asia to be “the most dangerous in the world.”
Read moreIn the years since computer scientist Tim-Burners Lee created the “World Wide Web” in 1990, online piracy has been on the rise, ranging from the simple film or music piracy that people around the world regularly indulge in, to data piracy by powerful states collecting massive caches of documents, emails, and analytics data from their rivals.
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With just one of these cargo ships, pirates can make millions worth of dollars than with conventional jobs. With such financial motivation, the path to piracy is easier as ever.
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