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		</div><p>Three teenage migrants have been charged in Malta with seizing control of a merchant ship and using force and intimidation against the crew, which is considered a terrorist crime under Maltese law.</p>
<p>One of the accused was identified by the court during the arraignment in Valletta as Abdalla Bari, a 19-year-old from Guinea.</p>
<p>The other two are a 15-year-old from Guinea and a 16-year-old from Ivory Coast. As minors they could not be named.</p>
<p>They are suspects in the hijacking in the Mediterranean this week of the El Hiblu 1 merchant oil tanker.</p>
<p>The captain has said that migrants his crew had rescued began to riot and threaten violence when they saw the ship was returning them to Libya. They forced it to turn north towards Europe.</p>
<p>The suspects pleaded not guilty. Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech denied a bail request, noting that civilian witnesses had yet to give evidence, including the captain and crew, and that the accused had no ties in Malta or means of paying bail.</p>
<p>The minors told the court they are secondary school students, while the 19-year-old said he had been studying sociology before leaving his country.</p>
<p>Under Maltese law, unlawfully seizing control of ship can be considered a terrorist activity and is punishable by anything between seven and 30 years in prison.</p>
<p>The ship was heading from Turkey to Libya when it was asked on Tuesday to divert its course to rescue nearly 100 migrants in distress, which it did, before continuing on its course.</p>
<p>When the migrants realised on Wednesday that they were heading back to lawless Libya, which they had just left, some revolted, commandeering the ship and forcing it to head to Europe.</p>
<p>The temporary hijacking was described by Italy’s hardline interior minister as an act of piracy.</p>
<p>Some aid groups called it an act of self-defence against Europe’s immigration policies, which aim to ship desperate migrants back to Libya, where they often face beatings, rape and torture in detention camps.</p>
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