Amsterdam- Judges at an international court in The Hague on Wednesday denied former Liberian President, Charles Taylor’s, request to serve out the remainder of his 50-year jail sentence in Rwanda.
Taylor, 67 was convicted in 2012 of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity during the 11-year civil war in Sierra Leone, in which over 50,000 were killed.
More thousands of people were mutilated before the war ended in 2002.
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Report says Taylor is serving his sentence in a British jail but has asked to be jailed in Rwanda, where his wife could visit him more easily.
He had argued that his wife’s failure to get a British visa represented an infringement on his human right to a family life. (Reuters/NAN)
