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The ex-wife of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London to face torture charges.

Agnes Reeves Taylor, 51, is suspected of ordering and carrying out torture between 1989 and 1991, during a civil war in the West African state.

She is to be tried at the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court, on 30 June.Up to 250,000 people are believed to have been killed in Liberia’s civil war, which ended in 2003.: Read More click link:

 

 

U.S. charges ex-Liberian defense minister, war criminal. 
U.S. charges ex-Liberian defense minister with lying in citizenship bid

A former Liberian defense minister, said by the United States to be a war criminal, has been arrested in New Jersey and charged with lying on his application to become a U.S. citizen about his past role in seeking control of the West African country.

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Liberian rebel leader arrested in Pennsylvania
A Liberian national, living near Philadelphia since the late 1990s, has been charged with gaining U.S. asylum by lying about his role as the rebel commander “Jungle Jabbah” who allegedly committed civil war atrocities including murder and conscripting child soldiers, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

Mohammed Jabbateh, 49, who lives in East Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, was indicted on two counts of fraud in immigration documents and two counts of perjury.

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A Former Commander of Liberian Rebels Is Arrested in Switzerland
A Former Commander of Liberian Rebels Is Arrested in Switzerland
MONROVIA, Liberia — The Swiss authorities have arrested a former commander of a Liberian rebel military faction who is accused of ordering civilian massacres, rapes and other atrocities in northern Liberia during the nation’s first civil war from 1989 to 1996

 

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Author: Impunity Watch Archive