Former Liberian president boycotts war crimes trial
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor boycotted the opening of his war crimes trial, calling it a "charade" in a letter read by his attorney, Karim Ahmad Khan. In the same letter, Taylor also dismissed Khan from the case and asked to represent himself.
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Charles Taylor appears at war crimes trial court in The Hague after demand for more senior lawyer is rejected.
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The former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, goes on trial for war crimes after a conflict in which thousands died.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor made a surprise appearance at the U.N. Special Court on Tuesday after having so far boycotted his trial on charges of orchestrating atrocities in Sierra Leone.
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THE HAGUE, Jan. 7 -- The war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, Liberia's former president, heard its first testimony Monday and saw video of victims telling of being sexually assaulted or dismembered by rebels who plundered West African diamond fields.
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Charles Taylor is charged with war crimes but he won't show up in court to face them
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Liberia's court charges a former army chief and an ex-parliamentary speaker with treason, officials say.
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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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The landmark war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor is to reconvene at The Hague.
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Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor's war crimes trial hears how Sierra Leone rebels massacred 101 people.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor boycotted the start of his war crimes trial on Monday, upstaging the U.N.-backed court where he is accused of instigating horrific atrocities in Sierra Leone.
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Former Liberian leader accused of war crimes fails to show up for start of his trial at The Hague.
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Recovering in a New York nursing home from surgery to remove a brain tumor, former Liberian interim President David Kpormakpor is relieved to learn that he will not be deported. At least not this year.
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The first witness in the trial of hte former Liberian President talks, not about atrocities, but about "blood diamonds"
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who is on trial for atrocities committed in Sierra Leone's civil war, would if convicted serve his sentence in Britain under an agreement made by British authorities.
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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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The trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor on charges of directing atrocities in Sierra Leone resumed in The Hague on Monday with prosecutors due to call their first witnesses to the stand.