This case shows the challenge of prosecuting crimes on the high seas. There were at least four ships on the scene, but no law required any of the dozens of witnesses to report the killings and no one did.
Crimes like this don’t often happen on land. A 10-minute slaughter of unarmed men at sea, captured by a cellphone camera. Find out more in Episode 1 below.
The Kaohsiung branch of the High Court on Thursday reduced a Chinese man’s jail sentence from 26 years to 13 for allegedly ordering the killing of suspected pirates while captain of a Taiwanese vessel in 2012. Wang Fengyu was arrested on Aug. 22, 2020, after the ship he was captain of at that time, the .