FILE PHOTO: One of two men who hijacked a Libyan Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 from Libya to Malta on Friday sits in a police car outside the law court in Valletta, Malta, December 25, 2016. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi
VALLETTA (Reuters) - A Maltese court said on Sunday it had granted bail to one of two men arrested for hijacking in 2016 after a passenger plane was forced to land in Malta, saying he had spent the maximum time allowed in prison without being tried.
Soko Moussa Shaha Ali and an accomplice were arrested for hijacking an Afriqiyah Airlines Airbus 320 just before Christmas in 2016, diverting it from its Libyan destination to Malta.
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