Charles Taylor Trial Postponed

January 29th, 2007 at 08:05pm

The Special Court for Sierra Leone has announced that the trial for the former president of Liberia Charles Taylor has been postponed from April 2 to June 4, 2007 at the request of the Taylor Defense. Justice Teresa Doherty ruled on the postponement and several other matters at the Taylor Status Conference on January 26 at the trial venue in The Hague. Taylor is charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity for the recruitment of child soldiers and the killing, mutilation, and sexual violence of thousands of victims during the civil war in Sierra Leone from 1996 through 2002. See here for further details.

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