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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
But on April 26 the Special Court for Sierra Leone convicted Charles Taylor for war crimes and crimes against humanity, proving that even the most powerful aren't immune from justice. As I watched Taylor looking on somberly as the verdict was read, I...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
The world over, leaders often abuse office with reckless abandon, forgetting one day they would be held to account in a court of law or court of public opinion. This subject is compelling, given Zimbabwe's record of human rights abuses; some...
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Mail and Guardian
| 1 year ago
Liberian ex-leader Charles Taylor was convicted Thursday of arming rebels who killed and mutilated thousands in Sierra Leone, in an historic verdict for international justice. Taylor (64) was found guilty on all counts including acts of terrorism,...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 1 year ago
Taylor, former president of Liberia and once a powerful warlord, was convicted by an international tribunal Thursday of arming, supporting and guiding a brutal rebel movement that committed mass atrocities in Sierra Leone during its civil war in the...
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The Dallas Morning News
| 1 year ago
A Text Size Peter Dejong/The New York Times Charles Taylor, the former warlord and president of Liberia, during his judgment hearing at The Hague, in the Netherlands, April 26, 2012. Taylor was convicted of abetting militias that committed war crimes...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 1 year ago
Friday Apr 27, 2012 The conviction of Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor sends a "powerful message'' to all war criminals, the United States said, hailing the "enormous'' historical milestone. Taylor is expected to be jailed in Britain after he is...
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The independent
| 1 year ago
Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia, has been convicted of war crimes at The Hague, the first time a former or current head of state has been found guilty by an international tribunal since the Nuremberg trials. After five years of...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
The indictment of Charles Taylor took war crimes jurisprudence to a new level, establishing the principle that a serving head of state was not immune from prosecution. The later indictments by the International Criminal Court of Sudan's President...
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Canada.com
| 1 year ago
Charles Taylor, the deposed president of Liberia, rose to his feet in an international court Thursday and heard a judge pronounce him guilty of 11 counts of war crimes, including "acts of terrorism" and "sexual slavery". The warlord who led Liberia...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Charles Taylor, the deposed president of Liberia, rose to his feet in an international court Thursday and heard a judge pronounce him guilty of 11 counts of war crimes, including "acts of terrorism" and "sexual slavery". The warlord who led Liberia...
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Asian Tribune
| 1 year ago
The Hague delivered on Thursday the Court's long anticipated verdict in the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, finding him unanimously guilty of all charges against him on grounds that he knowingly aided and abetted rebel forces in...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Peter Dejong/AFP/Getty Images The first African president to be prosecuted at an international court has been found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity for supporting rebels who carried out atrocities in Sierra Leone...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Key Dates in Charles Taylor's Life Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was found guilty Thursday of aiding and abetting grave human rights abuses and war crimes in a historic verdict by the Special Court for Sierra Leone. While Taylor was not...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Editorial The conviction of Charles Taylor for aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone was an important step in what can only be described as the faltering path of international justice. The sentence pronounced in...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
A guilty war crimes verdict for former Liberian President Charles Taylor means the days of impunity for "tyrants" is over, the U.N. rights commissioner said. A U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, convicted Taylor of aiding and...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
The Hague April 27, 2012 Read later Former Liberian President Charles Taylor sits down at the UN-backed Special Court. Photo: Reuters A UN war crimes judge has ruled that Liberia's former president Charles Taylor is criminally responsible for arming...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
The former Liberian president Charles Taylor has been found guilty by an international tribunal for supporting fighters to commit atrocities during an 11-year civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone. Sentencing will take place on May 30, Justice...
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IMDb Celebrity News
| 1 year ago
Judges decided on Thursday Taylor had been "criminally responsible" for helping rebels in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war from 1991-2002 by selling 'blood diamonds' to buy weapons while knowing they would be used in the conflict. He had pleaded not...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
As the world applauded the guilty verdict against former Liberian president Charles Taylor today, the angry backlash in his homeland was a reminder of the risks of prosecuting a politician who remains popular at home. At a special international court...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
A U.N.-backed war crimes court Thursday convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor of war crimes for aiding ruthless rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone The judges, sitting in The Hague, Netherlands, convicted Taylor, 64, of aiding and...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Sentencing Scheduled for 30 May 26 April 2012 press release Freetown Charles Ghankay Taylor, the former President of Liberia, was convicted today on all counts of an 11-count indictment which alleged that he was responsible for crimes committed by...
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Chicago Tribune
| 1 year ago
A United Nations -backed court convicted former Liberian president Charles Taylor of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity, the first time a head of state has been found guilty by an international tribunal since the Nazi trials...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
A lay Baptist preacher or a brutal warlord on trial in an international court: in Charles Taylor, the myth and the man, became inseparable. Accusations of cannibalism swirled around the former Liberian president even as he quoted scripture to his...
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Fox
| 1 year ago
Netherlands In a historic ruling, an international court convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity for supporting notoriously brutal rebels in neighboring Sierra...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Blood Diamond' Conflict in Pictures Warning: This gallery contains pictures some readers might find disturbing The Special Court for Sierra Leone has found Liberian warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes...
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The Observer
| 1 year ago
Charles Taylor at the special court for Sierra Leone in The Hague. Photograph: Reuters Charles Taylor , the former president of Liberia , has been found to have "aided and abetted" war crimes by a United Nations-backed tribunal in The Hague. After...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Former Liberian president is found criminally responsible for aiding and abetting war crimes, in which 50,000 were killed. A United Nations-backed court convicted former Liberian president Charles Taylor of war crimes on Thursday, the first time an...
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Associated Press
| 1 year ago
In a historic ruling, an international court has convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity for supporting notoriously brutal Sierra Leone rebels in return for blood diamonds.
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Canada.com
| 1 year ago
Netherlands Hague war crimes court rules former Liberian President Charles Taylor guilty of crimes in Sierra Leone. The international court opened Thursday its judgment hearing for Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor, accused of arming Sierra Leone'...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has been found guilty of war crimes at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, Netherlands. Share This Story The court , which is a joint project of the United Nations and the government of Sierra...
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The Sun UK
| 1 year ago
Former president Charles Taylor is accused of sponsoring rebels in Sierra Leone's bloody ten-year civil war. He allegedly armed Revolutionary United Front (RUF) militants in exchange for blood diamonds, with some being given to supermodel Naomi...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
A special tribunal in The Hague is delivering its verdict in the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, accused of masterminding some of the worst human rights abuses in recent memory. The Special Court for Sierra Leone is meeting...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
From the Human Rights Watch Q&A I just mentioned, this is a useful run-through of the charges faced by Taylor, and the legal justifications for his trial: Five counts of war crimes: terrorizing civilians, murder, outrages on personal dignity, cruel...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Thursday's verdict for a Liberian ex-dictator accused of war crimes in the Sierra Leone civil war will put international justice on trial, an analyst said. The verdict in the trial of Charles Taylor -- the first sitting or former head of state judged...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
As the Special Court for Sierra Leone at The Hague is expected to reach a verdict in the case against Charles Taylor, who has been charged with 11 counts relating to war crimes, IBTimes UK looks back on the life of the man at the centre of the trial.
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Newyork Times
| 1 year ago
If found guilty, Mr. Taylor, who has maintained that he is innocent, will hear his sentence in the coming weeks. There is no death penalty in international criminal law and any jail term would be served in a British prison. No African president has...
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International Herald Tribune
| 1 year ago
If found guilty, Mr. Taylor, who has maintained that he is innocent, will hear his sentence in the coming weeks. There is no death penalty in international criminal law and any jail term would be served in a British prison. No African president has...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Charles Taylor born in Arthington, Liberia, into a family descended from freed American slaves.
1970s: Lives in Boston area of the United States, earning an economics degree from Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
The Hague Under a spectacle that made many an African leader sit up navel-gazing, Charles Taylor stepped down as president of Liberia in 2003, promising "God willing, I will be back"...Monrovia leaving the man who came to power through rebellion on...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Former Liberia president to learn fate 26 April 2012 Last updated at 01:10 ET Former Liberia President Charles Taylor will hear The Hague whether he has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Mr Taylor is accused of fuelling...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
International judges are due to give a verdict in the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor. Mr Taylor has been on trial at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, sitting in The Hague, for almost five years. He is accused of backing...
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Al Jazeera English
| 1 year ago
22 Charles Taylor was President of Liberia from 1997 to 2003 [AFP] Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor is set to hear a historic verdict on charges of arming Sierra Leone's rebels in return for "blood diamonds" in the 1990s.
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The Washington Times
| 1 year ago
For the first time in history, an international court will issue a verdict in the war crimes trial of a head of state. The defendant, Charles Taylor , 64, is the former president of Liberia . Once an African strong man wielding immense power, he has...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Charles Taylor, the warlord who rose to lead Liberia, could become the first ex-president to be consigned to a British prison cell after judgment is delivered in his war crimes trial Thursday. Taylor, who ruled Liberia from 1997 until his downfall in...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
These men, like thousands of others, lost legs and arms during Sierra Leone's brutal 11-year conflict. It began in 1991, as the Revolutionary United Front, the RUF, crossed the Western border from Liberia in an attempt to topple Sierra Leone's...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Lasting scars of Sierra Leone conflict 25 April 2012 Last updated at 11:51 ET People in Sierra Leone are awaiting the verdict of former Liberian President Charles Taylor's war crimes trial, 10 years on from the end of the civil war. The indictment...
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Canada.com
| 1 year ago
The government of Liberia on Wednesday urged people to stay calm ahead of the imminent war crimes verdict on former president Charles Taylor from the Special Court for Sierra Leone. "The government calls on all Liberians to remain calm and peaceful...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
However, increasingly these tribunals have also become more concerned about the visibility of their work, and about embarking on outreach activities to bring local and affected communities closer to the judicial process even when proceedings are...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
The former Liberian president's apprehension is the jewel in the crown of international justice, but his criminal case on eleven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity is hardly clear-cut. Critics claim Taylor's prosecution was...
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The Observer
| 1 year ago
Ben Curtis/AP Charles Taylor , the former president of Liberia , is due to appear in a war crimes court at The Hague to learn his fate at the end of a four-year trial and begin a journey that may end in a British prison cell. The first African head...
