Two Somali pirates were sentenced to three decades in prison over the kidnapping of an American journalist held in captivity for nearly 1,000 days, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

A Somali man who became a naturalized U.S. citizen has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 2012 kidnapping of American journalist Michael Scott Moore. Abdi Yusuf Hassan, formerly of Minneapolis,

Two Somali men who prosecutors called pirates were sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday in the 2012 kidnapping of an American journalist who was held hostage for over two years.

Two Somali men will spend 30 years in prison for the kidnapping of an American journalist, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said Tuesday. In a press release, the attorney’s office said that U.