The Extent of International Jurisdiction over Piracy Incidents on the High Seas

Abstract

The crime of piracy is considered one of the acts that threaten international peace and security, and it is of an international nature in terms of illegal acts of violence directed against ships, tracking people or money they are carrying, which takes place on the high seas, or in a place that is not subject to the jurisdiction of a state and the aim of committing it is to achieve Special purposes of an economic nature with the accompanying acts of violence against the crew or passengers of the ship, and in this research we will discuss the extent of the jurisdiction of the international judiciary for piracy incidents as a crime against the international community, so that it is permissible for every country that controls the pirate and whether it is within the jurisdiction of its courts to hold him accountable and the extent to which its legislation is applied to him , although he does not have its nationality and that the place of his crime is the public sea that is not subject to the sovereignty of any country.