{"id":39185,"date":"2018-10-10T17:08:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T15:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/39185-former-liberian-president-s-ex-wife-denies-torture-rap.html"},"modified":"2018-10-10T17:08:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T15:08:01","slug":"former-liberian-president-s-ex-wife-denies-torture-rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/39185-former-liberian-president-s-ex-wife-denies-torture-rap.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Liberian president's ex-wife denies torture rap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n             The ex-wife of former Liberian president Charles Taylor denied a string of torture charges relating to the west African country's civil war in the 1990s at a hearing in London on Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Agnes Taylor, a 52-year-old former university lecturer, is accused of being involved in the torture of a child and conspiring to use rape to torture women during the conflict.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Prosecutors said all of the seven alleged crimes were committed while Agnes Taylor was \"a public official or person acting in an official capacity\" and were linked to her \"official duties\".\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Taylor, who previously worked at Coventry University in central England, is currently in custody and faces trial in January next year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Charles Taylor is currently serving 50 years in a British jail for his role in fuelling civil conflict in neighbouring Sierra Leone.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Taylor was the first former head of state to be jailed by an international court since the Nazi trials at Nuremberg in Germany after World War II.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            He was convicted in 2012 on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity over acts committed by Sierra Leone rebels he aided and abetted during the war.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            He was transferred to Britain in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-wife of former Liberian president Charles Taylor denied a string of torture charges relating to the west African country's civil war in the 1990s at a hearing in London on Wednesday. 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