Amnesty International’s twenty years with Charles Taylor

Headline Title: Amnesty International’s twenty years with Charles Taylor 30 May 2012 Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has been given a 50-year prison sentence in the Hague by the Special Court for Sierra Leone for aiding and abetting war crimes. The prison term is for crimes committed in Sierra Leone between 1996 and 2002.Amnesty International looks at key dates in the organisation’s campaigning work on his crimes and alleged crimes in Sierra Leone and Liberia prior to his arrest. Charles Taylor, who also led the armed opposition group National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL),…

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