Apr
26
2012
By IELR Blog
On April 26, 2012 the judges of Special Court for Sierra Leone delivered a guilty verdict in the trial of Liberia's former president, Charles Taylor, on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Taylor had been charged with 11 counts of war crimes, ranging from murder to sexual slavery, which occured during Sierra Leone's civil war in the 1990s. Taylor, who will be imprisoned in a maximum security prison located in Britain, will be sentenced at a later date. Taylor is also the first head of state to be convicted by an international court.