PROFESSOR TAYLOR WINS 2007 TEMPLETON PRIZE IN NEW YORK
John Templeton Jr. M.D. (L) awards Professor Charles Taylor from Montreal Canada and 2007 Templeton Prize Laureate from McGill University the $1.5 million dollar award to advance his studies on the relationship of language to art and theology, in New York on March 14, 2007. (UPI Photo/Ezio Petersen)
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WASHINGTON, May 30 (UPI) -- With former Liberian President Charles Taylor sentenced to jail, an advocacy group said it was time for the Liberian government to establish its own court.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, May 30 (UPI) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, convicted of aiding war crimes, was sentenced to 50 years by the Special Court for Sierra Leone at The Hague.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, May 16 (UPI) -- Reconciliation should be a guiding principle when assessing past atrocities committed during civil war, convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor said.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, May 16 (UPI) -- Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor says prosecution witnesses were paid or coerced to testify at his war crimes trial at The Hague in the Netherlands.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, May 14 (UPI) -- The conviction of former Liberian President Charles Taylor on war crimes charges is a victory for the people of Sierra Leone, a prosecutor said.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, May 4 (UPI) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor helped plan the most violent chapter of Sierra Leone's war and should spend his life in jail, prosecutors said.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, April 30 (UPI) -- Sierra Leone has shown a commitment to international humanitarian law by establishing a rights committee in Freetown, the ICRC said.
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 26 (UPI) -- 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.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, April 26 (UPI) -- 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
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