MONROVIA – The war crimes trial of Agnes Reeves Taylor, former wife of ex-President Charles Taylor, and the sentencing of Thomas Woewiyu, former spokesman of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), have both been postponed to later dates. This was the second time Reeves Taylor’s trial has been pushed back after it was rescheduled from January 14, 2019. Reeves Taylor was arrested in London in July 2018 on eight counts of torture offenses, which were allegedly committed between 1989 and 1991. Jabbateh became the first Liberian jailed in America for a role in the Liberian civil war. Charles Taylor’s son Chuckie was convicted as an American for committing torture in Liberia’s civil war and is serving a 97-year sentence in Florida.

Source: Front Page Africa February 21, 2019 00:00 UTC