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September 27, 2013

Court Upholds 50-Year Prison Term for Charles Taylor 
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An international appeals court has upheld a 50-year prison sentence for
former Liberian president Charles Taylor for war crimes during the civil
war in Sierra Leone. Taylor was found guilty last year of overseeing
crimes including murder, rape, sexual slavery and drafting child
soldiers. He was the first African head of state to be found guilty in
an international court and the first head of state convicted since World
War II. U.S. officials have previously confirmed Taylor worked for the
CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies during his emergence as a
warlord in the 1980s.

 

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