Taylor boycott forces delay of war crimes trial
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Judges delayed Charles Taylor's trial on charges of directing atrocities in Sierra Leone on Monday after the former Liberian President failed to show up in court, saying he lacked funds for a defense.
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The prosecution in Russiaâs trial of former Yukos leader Mikhail Khodorkovsky adjourned proceedings on Tuesday until Nov. 9, Reuters reported citing court sources.
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A South African court has postponed the trial of Mark Thatcher on charges he helped finance a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea until next April.
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Judges postponed their verdict in Saddam Hussein's trial Tuesday, a long-awaited decision that once held out the hope of healing Iraq's wounds but now threatens to spark even more sectarian violence.
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The U.N.-backed Special Court for   Sierra Leone has set a provisional start date to try Charles   Taylor on April 2, 2007, the court said on Friday.
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15 September 2004 - The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today adjourned the already long-running genocide trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan MiloÅ¡evic again, this time for almost a month, to allow his recently
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Judges on Thursday ordered the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor delayed until Aug. 20 to provide time for a new defense team to prepare its case.
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The case against Mark Thatcher, a British businessman who is being charged for allegedly bankrolling an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, has been postponed in the Wynberg Magistrate&#39;s Court.
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Former Gov. George Ryan's corruption trial was postponed from March to September after he begged a judge Friday for a delay.
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Liberia's former President Charles Taylor was absent at the start of his trial in The Hague on Monday by a U.N.-backed court for war crimes during Sierra Leone's civil war.
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The court case against Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who was severely injured in police custody, was delayed on Wednesday when state lawyers did not turn up, defense attorneys said.
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Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor boycotted the opening of his trial in The Hague for war crimes in Sierra Leone on Monday, saying he had lost faith in the U.N.-backed court and upstaging the proceedings.
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Prosecutors launched their war crimes case against former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Monday, taking testimony from an expert on blood diamonds and showing video of a Sierra Leone miner whose hands had been hacked off.
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Charles G. Taylor, once one of West Africaâs most feared men, dismissed his defense lawyer today and refused to appear at the opening of his long-awaited war crimes trial.
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Family and friends of Charles Taylor held a church service on Sunday in support of the former Liberian president, on the eve of his trial in The Hague on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Prosecutors began their war crimes case against Liberia's Charles Taylor on Monday with footage of a Sierra Leonean whose hands were cut off by rebels, and testimony on the diamond trade that funded a brutal war.
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A military judge on Monday delayed the court-martial trial of three British soldiers accused of mistreating detainees in Iraq after photos of alleged abuse were published in a London newspaper.