A witness defending Charles Taylor today said he never heard of the former Liberian president giving orders to his own rebel forces to kill, rape, loot or burn people’s houses, as alleged by prosecutors.
A protected witness, testifying under the pseudonym DCT 125 and with face and voice distortion, said if any crimes were committed under [...]
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March
8
2010
Charles Taylor Trial Resumes Tomorrow
Dear Readers,
The Charles Taylor trial will resume again tomorrow (Tuesday) and continue through the rest of the week. No proceedings were held today as the Special Court for Sierra Leone has to share the courtrooms at the International Criminal Court with its own ongoing trials.
March
5
2010
Your Questions Wanted: Interview with Courtenay Griffiths, lead Counsel for Charles Taylor
Dear Readers,
Some excellent news for us today. Courtenay Griffiths – Mr. Taylor’s lead defense lawyer — has agreed to be interviewed for this site next Wednesday.
We are seeking your questions for him, which we’ll be accepting through until 9am EST, Tuesday morning (March 9, 2010). We are still keeping in mind the questions asked when [...]
Neither Charles Taylor nor his security forces supported or participated in the Sierra Leonean rebel attack on the country’s capital Freetown in 1999, the Special Court for Sierra Leone heard today as Mr. Taylor’s first defense witness ended his testimony.
Mr. Yanks’ testimony – consistent on this point with Mr. Taylor’s own testimony — stands in contrast [...]
March
1
2010
“Nobody Is Lying,” Witness says, As Prosecutors Suggest That His Account Is Different From Charles Taylor’s
A defense witness for Charles Taylor has dismissed prosecution assertions that his testimony is contradicting that of the former Liberian president, telling the court that neither him, nor Mr. Taylor, is lying to the judges.
Between July 2009 and February 2010, Mr. Taylor, who stands accused of supporting Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels, testified as [...]
March
1
2010
A Day In Photos at the Charles Taylor Trial
Dear Readers,
One of our regular commenters, $$ker-Bnker, asked to see some photos of the International Criminal Court and the Charles Taylor trial while I was in The Hague this week. Davenpost.Noko7 wanted to see some also. Well, here are a few from today’s proceedings taken from my phone while I was there – not high [...]
February
27
2010
Charles Taylor’s First Witnesses Starts His Testimony, Says Prosecution Witness Lied Against The Former Liberian President
The first witness for Charles Taylor started his testimony this week, telling Special Court for Sierra Leone judges that prosecution witnesses lied against the former Liberian president.
On Monday, Yanks Smythe, a Gambiam national who was a member of Mr. Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) rebel group and who later acquired Liberian citizenship and [...]
