Convicted war criminal Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison Wednesday, marking the end of a years-long legal process to hold the former Liberian president accountable for atrocities ...

Charles Taylor, the first head of state to be convicted of international war crimes since World War II, was given a 50 year prison sentence today for his role in the atrocities during Sierra Leone's ...

In April, the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague found Charles Taylor guilty of many crimes against humanity related to his involvement with the civil war in Sierra Leone. (Taylor was not ...

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor will serve his 50-year war crimes sentence in a U.K. prison, the British Justice Minister Jeremy Wright said on Thursday. Sweden and Rwanda had also offered to ...