据印度海军人员透露，印度海军将起诉在索马里海域一艘被劫持船只上抓获的35名索马里海盗。这一做法改变了其最近的做法，即营救船只和船员，把缴械的海盗留在海上。

这位官员说，被抓获的海盗定于周六抵达印度，并将被移交给执法机构。他拒绝透露姓名，因为他没有被授权向媒体发表讲话。

他表示，目前还不清楚对海盗的确切指控。周六，印度海军突击队成功释放了这艘悬挂马耳他国旗、名为MV Ruen的商船。该船于12月14日在位于阿拉伯海北部的索科特拉岛以东约450海里处被索马里海盗劫持。

这也是自2017年以来索马里海盗首次劫持商船。在2011年袭击的高峰期，索马里海盗给全球经济造成了约70亿美元的损失，其中包括数亿美元的赎金。

在海盗活动的高峰期，印度海军曾在印度监禁和起诉参与任何重大袭击的海盗。然而，近几个月来，海军已开始将海盗留在海上。

从12月起，印度还在亚丁湾和阿拉伯海北部部署了大约十几艘军舰，这有助于协助驶向红海东部的船只。包括美国在内的许多国家的海军一直在红海东部努力保护受到也门胡塞武装分子袭击的航运通道。

这位印度官员表示，自从Ruen号被劫持以来，印度海军一直能够借助智能空中平台，以及从其他船只收集到的独特信息的帮助下，对该地区进行持续的监视行动。英国海事安全少校Ambrey表示，3月14日，有人在索马里海岸发现了Ruen。

这位海军官员表示，海盗将Ruen号改装成了一艘母船，用来对其他船只发动野蛮的袭击。海军在周六的一份声明中称，它于3月15日被拦截。

上周，另一艘商船MV Abdullah也被劫持。这发生在索马里，索马里军队正计划在外国海军的帮助下发动袭击。

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英文原文

India will prosecute 35 Somali pirates its navy captured on a hijacked ship off Somalia, according to naval personnel. It is departing from its recent practice of rescuing vessels and crew and leaving the disarmed pirates at sea.

The captured pirates are scheduled to reach India on Saturday and are going to be handed over to law enforcement agencies, the official said. He refused to be identified as he was not authorized to speak to the media.

He stated that the accurate charges brought against the pirates weren’t immediately clear. The commandos of the Indian navy managed to release the Malta-flagged commercial vessel dubbed the MV Ruen on Saturday, which was hijacked some 450 nm to the east of Socotra based in the northern Arabian Sea by the Somali pirates on 14 December.

It also marked the first-ever hijacking of a merchant vessel by Somali pirates since 2017. At the peak of their attacks in 2011, Somali pirates cost the global economy an estimated $7 billion, including hundreds of millions of dollars in ransom payments.

During the peak of piracy, the Indian navy used to jail and prosecute in India pirates who were involved in any major attacks. However, the navy has taken to leaving the pirates at sea in recent months.

India has also deployed about a dozen war vessels in the Gulf of Aden as well as the northern Arabian Sea from December onward, which helps assist vessels that sail to the east of the Red Sea, where navies of many countries, including the US, have been trying to secure shipping channels under attack from the Yemeni Houthi militants.

The Indian official stated that from the time of Ruen’s hijacking, the navy has been able to keep the area under consistent surveillance actions with the help of its smart aerial platforms as well as unique information gathered from the other vessels it has been looking into. On 14 March, Ruen had been seen spotted off the Somali coast, British maritime security major Ambrey stated.

The navy official said that the pirates had converted Ruen into a mother ship, using boats for launching brutal attacks on other vessels. It had been intercepted on 15 March, the navy reported in a statement on Saturday.

Yet another merchant vessel, MV Abdullah, had been hijacked last week. This took place in Somalia, and the Somali forces were planning to attack with the help of foreign navies.

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