PROFESSOR TAYLOR WINS 2007 TEMPLETON PRIZE IN NEW YORK
Professor Charles Taylor from Montreal Canada and 2007 Templeton Prize Laureate from McGill University answers journalist questions after receiving 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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THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, facing a Sierra Leone war crimes tribunal, says Taiwan and Libya contributed to his 1997 presidential campaign.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, July 28 (UPI) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor told a war crimes tribunal he did not order acts of cannibalism during a savage 10-year civil war in Sierra Leone.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, July 14 (UPI) -- Former Liberian despot Charles Taylor testified on his own behalf Tuesday as the first defense witness in his war crimes trial at The Hague, Netherlands.
MONROVIA, Liberia, July 7 (UPI) -- Liberia's truth commission's report calls for the country's president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and dozens of other senior officers to be barred from office.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, June 28 (UPI) -- A United Nations-backed court says lawyers for former Liberian president Charles Taylor will open their defense in his war-crimes trial on July 13.
SINKOR, Liberia, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf testified Friday she had never been a member of a warring faction and challenged her critics to prove otherwise.
MIAMI, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. prosecutors say they are seeking a 147-year prison sentence for Charles "Chuckie" Taylor Jr., convicted of torturing opponents in Liberia.
MIAMI, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been convicted by a Miami jury of charges of torture and conspiracy carried out in Liberia.
MIAMI, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Charles "Chuckie" Taylor Jr., son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, was a torturer whose name was feared in Liberia, U.S. prosecutors said.
UPI Almanac for Wednesday, June 4, 2008.
