In a case that dates back to the worst days of the Somali pirates, Abdi Yusef Hassan, 56, of Minneapolis, Minn,, and Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed, 43, of Mogadishu, Somalia, have each been sentenced to 30 years in prison in connection with the 977-day hostage taking of American journalist Michael Scott Moore in Somalia. A jury in the Eastern District of New York convicted Hassan and Mohamed of those offenses in February 2023 following a three-week trial.
According to the complaints, indictments,...