The raid on the 106,000-dwt Guanabara (built 2007) tookplace off Oman in the Indian Ocean.
Tokyo district court heard that the Japan Coast Guardidentifies the men as Mohamed Urgus Adeysey and Abdinur Hussein Ali, who arebelieved to be in their 20s or 30s.
Defence counsel asked a panel of three professionaljudges and six citizen judges to turn down the indictment against the two men,noting that there were no Japanese victims in the case and that the two havelong been detained without access to an interpreter.
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