SUA Convention 1988

The Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, adopted in 1988 after the 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking and in force 1 March 1992, criminalizes seizing a ship by force, violence against persons aboard, and acts that endanger safe navigation, and obliges parties to prosecute or extradite offenders. A 2005 Protocol broadened it to cover use of a ship in terrorism and the transport of weapons of mass destruction. It addresses the criminal-law side of maritime security that the ISPS Code addresses preventively.