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| Subject: Great: UN court upholds Charles Taylor's 50-year term on appeal Thu Sep 26, 2013 7:51 pm | |
| A UN-backed appeals court on Thursday confirmed Liberian ex-president and warlord Charles Taylor's 50-year sentence for arming rebels during Sierra Leone's brutal 1990s civil war.
"The appeals chamber... affirms the sentence of 50 years in prison and orders that the sentence be imposed immediately," judge George King told the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) in The Hague.
The landmark ruling marks the end of the road for the former West African strongman's marathon seven-year trial.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/un-court-upholds-charles-taylors-50year-term-on-appeal-20130926-2uh9d.html#ixzz2g2uT4YGj |
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