June 19, 2013
News in 'Law' section
RUF ex-rebel faces trial in Freetown for "witness tampering"
June 9, 2012The Sierra Leone Special courtroom in Freetown will on Monday, June 11 be the venue of a contempt trial former RUF rebel member accused of attempting to tamper with prosecution witnesses, who testified against convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor.
GIABA Lunches Book on Prosecuting Econ & Financial Crimes
June 8, 2012By William Selmah/WADR Correspondent
A program marking the official presentation of a book on ‘Strategies and Techniques of Prosecuting Economic and Financial Crimes’ has taken place in Abuja, Nigeria, with a call for concerted effort to combat economic and financial crimes.
Arrested ex-Gbagbo Defence chief now under probe in Abidjan
June 7, 2012The former Defense Minister under former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, Moise Lida Kouassi is on Thursday facing interrogation in the main city, Abidjan after his extradition from Togo on Wednesday.
Ghana police seize cache of weapons en route from Ivory Coast
June 7, 2012By Kofi Agyepong/WADR Correspondent
Ghana’s police say they have seized a big quantity of weapons entering the country from neighbouring Ivory Coast.
A statement from Ghana police service today said the weapons include AK-47 rifles and other dangerous weapons, which were on board a truck.
Advancing Sierra Leone women’s rights to land, justice
June 7, 2012By Mohamed Konneh/WADR Correspondent
For the first time, women from across Sierra Leone have converged on the capital, Freetown for a three-day national conference on women’s rights to land and access to justice.
Liberia rejects HRW claims regarding Ivorian dissidents
June 7, 2012The Liberian government has denied Human Rights Watch (HRW) claims that it has failed to investigate and prosecuted dozens of Liberian mercenaries and Ivorian militants who crossed into Liberia, after allegedly committing war crimes during Ivory Coast post-election crisis.
HRW says armed Ivorian militants recruiting children in Liberia
June 6, 2012Human Rights Watch (HRW) claims that armed militants hostile to the Ivorian government have been recruiting Liberian children inside Liberia.
The New York based rights group in a report released on Wednesday that Liberian authorities have failed to investigate and prosecute...
Senegal: Sall govt. preparing to put Hissen Habre on trial
June 3, 2012The Macky Sall government in Senegal has assured that it will give former Chadian President Hissen Habre a fair and equitable trial, as the country’s Justice Ministry announced plans to try him for war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture.
Taylor Trial: A step away from impunity, a leap forward for justice?
May 31, 2012Eleven years after the official declaration of the end of Sierra Leone’s civil war, Charles Ghankay Taylor was sentenced today to 50 years imprisonment by the Special Court for Sierra Leone sitting in The Hague. Taylor was unanimously found guilty on April 26 th , 2012 of all eleven counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and serious violations of international humanitarian law.
Taylor sentenced 50 years in jail
May 30, 2012Convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor, age 64, has on Wednesday been sentenced to 50 years in jail by the United Nations-backed Sierra Leone war crimes court siting in The Hague, Netherlands.
"Mr. Taylor benefitted from this terror and the destruction," said the presiding Judge of the court Richard Lussick before announcing his 50 years jail term.....
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