{"id":24994,"date":"2015-05-22T12:59:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T10:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/24994-210515-scsltaylor-court-rejects-taylor-bid-to-serve-jail-term-in-rwanda.html"},"modified":"2015-05-22T12:59:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T10:59:18","slug":"210515-scsltaylor-court-rejects-taylor-bid-to-serve-jail-term-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/24994-210515-scsltaylor-court-rejects-taylor-bid-to-serve-jail-term-in-rwanda.html","title":{"rendered":"21.05.15 \u2013 SCSL\/TAYLOR \u2013 COURT REJECTS TAYLOR BID TO SERVE JAIL TERM IN RWANDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arusha, May 22, 2015 (FH) \u2013 The Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Wednesday put a final end to Charles Taylor\u2019s bid to be moved from a jail in the UK to one in Rwanda. The convicted former Liberian president is serving a 50-year prison sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In January the court rejected Taylor\u2019s motion to be moved to a jail in Rwanda, where other SCSL convicts have been sent. A specially convened trial chamber on Wednesday turned down his request for permission to appeal the decision.\u00a0 It said Taylor\u2019s lawyers had failed to prove \u201cexceptional circumstances\u201d or \u201cirreparable prejudice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor had argued that he wanted to be closer to his family. His lawyer told the media that his wife and children had been unable to visit him in the UK. Taylor\u2019s wife, Victoria Addison Taylor, also claimed that her husband was being detained with \u201cterrorists and other British common law criminals\u201d and was being \u201chumiliated\u201d every day.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2012, the former Liberian President was convicted of crimes including murder, rape, sexual slavery, cruel treatment and using child soldiers.\u00a0 He was found guilty on the basis that he aided and abetted rebels in Sierra Leone who committed countless atrocities against civilians during that country\u2019s civil war (1991-2002). On October 15, 2013, Taylor was transferred from the Netherlands to a high security prison near Durham, in northeast England.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor\u2019s was the last trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The Dutch government agreed to host the trial at the premises of the International Criminal Court (ICC), following a request from Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who feared instability in Liberia if Taylor were tried in Sierra Leone. The Netherlands agreed on the basis that if Taylor were convicted he would serve his sentence elsewhere. The UK agreed to take him.<\/p>\n<p>JC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arusha, May 22, 2015 (FH) \u2013 The Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Wednesday put a final end to Charles Taylor\u2019s bid to be moved from a jail in the UK to one in Rwanda. 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