Authority: Special Court for Sierra Leone

Date: 04/26/2012

Subject: The Trial Chamber II of the Special Court for Sierra Leone sentenced the accused person, who was the former president of Liberia, for having aided and abetted the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) in the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the ten-year long civil war in Sierra Leone

Parties: Prosecutor v. Charles Ghankay Taylor

Original language: English

Classification: Dignity - Art. 1 Human dignity - Art. 2 Right to life - Art. 3 Physical and mental integrity - Art. 4 Inhuman punishments - Degrading punishments - Inhuman treatments - Degrading treatments - Equality - Art. 24 Children’s rights

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