three Seychellois were sentenced to death in Egypt for drug trafficking.

three Seychellois were sentenced to death in Egypt for drug trafficking. According to a press release from the Seychelles Ministry of Home Affairs and Transport, the three Seychellois were part of the crew onboard a boat owned by British national Charles Raymond Ferndale aged 74. The press release names the three Seychellois as Ronny Norman Jean, aged 41; Yvon John Vinda (38); and Dean Dominic Loze (27). They were all taken into custody, according to a report provided by the Egyptian authorities.
A Pakistani national, Munawar Saeed Khan, aged 44, is also involved in this incident. The Ministry of Home Affairs and Transport press release added that the report from Egypt stated that the boat was in Egyptian territorial waters near the islands of Zaborgad at the time of the arrest on 22 April 2011.
Egyptian authorities recovered three tonnes of hashish in 118 bags which was bound for Egypt.
Since learning of the fate of the three Seychellois, the government of Seychelles has made an appeal for clemency, appealing to the government of Egypt to commute their sentences to life imprisonment.