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| |  | | Charles Taylor | | | context : | Sierra Leone  | | judgement place : | Sierra Leone Special Court | | status : | On trial | | particulars : | Trial before the SCSL in The Hague began on 4 June 2007; start of Defence case on 13 July 2009 | | position : | President of Liberia |
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| | | | On 31 May 2004, the Special Court for Sierra Leone rejected a preliminary appeal filed by Charles Taylor. He had claimed that as President of Liberia at the time of the alleged facts, he benefitted from immunity as Head of State and that consequently, his indictment by the Court was illegal.
The Court ruled that the principle of non-interference in the affairs of another State does not prevent the criminal prosecution of a Head of State by an international criminal tribunal such as the one set up in Sierra Leone.
Moreover, in invoking such precedents as the Nuremberg and Tokyo Charters, and the Statutes of the ad-hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, it further held that the immunity of heads of States does not extend to crimes against humanity and war crimes. | |    | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Liberia | | | date of birth : | | | 28.01.1948 | | | last time seen : | | | The Hague (Netherlands) | | | period of charges : | | | 30.11.1996 | | | judgement period : | | | 04.06.2007 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 27.02.2010 |
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