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Taylor complains about Hague jail
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has said he is unhappy with "draconian" conditions in the Dutch prison where he is awaiting trial.
Mr Taylor's lawyer made the complaint during his first appearance before a special UN-backed war crimes tribunal.Mr Taylor faces 11 war crimes charges after allegedly backing rebels in the decade-long Sierra Leone civil war.
He was arrested in Nigeria this year and detained in Sierra Leone before being moved to The Hague for security.
Attorney Karim Asad Ahmad Khan described The Hague jail regime as "far more draconian... than operates in Freetown", the capital of Sierra Leone.
He said Mr Taylor was locked in his cell for up to 16 hours a day and could not make as many phone calls as he was allowed in Sierra Leone.
He also complained that his client was forced to eat "Eurocentric" food.
'Repugnant to justice'
Mr Khan also objected to comments made by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan during a visit earlier this month to the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown.
Mr Khan said Mr Annan had referred to war crimes suspects such as Mr Taylor as criminals, undermining their right to be presumed innocent - something that was "repugnant to justice".Although the Special Court for Sierra Leone is situated in Sierra Leone itself, Mr Taylor is being tried in the Netherlands for fear that his presence in Sierra Leone might lead to unrest.
The Dutch government agreed to host Mr Taylor's trial, as long as he was imprisoned in another country if he was convicted.
The United Kingdom has agreed to jail Mr Taylor in the event he is convicted.
Both Sierra Leone and Liberia are recovering from years of conflict, in which Mr Taylor played a central role.
Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front rebels were notorious for mutilating civilians, by hacking off their arms or legs with machetes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5203250.stm
Hail Jeboo!
Posted : 21/07/2006 6:25 pm
I see....it doesn't have enough nigger body meat for them to cannibalize(Especially,the testicles,a favorite of tin horn dictators of ass-freak-ka ),grasshoppers (Which they kill with their spears,and try to collect piles of and cook) or other hideous bugs that only exist in assfreakka,gorilla,or poisonous snake ,so,it's not "afro(phallo)centric" "food".
Fine
Posted : 21/07/2006 8:47 pm
He also complained that his client was forced to eat "Eurocentric" food.
Is this a veiled way of complaining about a distinct lack of bushmeat in the Hague's cafeteria?
Posted : 21/07/2006 9:06 pm
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Niggers aren't known for being connoisseurs of food. I think Chuck is a bit pissed he doesn't have run of the place like he did back in Sierra Leone.
Hail Jeboo!
Posted : 21/07/2006 10:10 pm
He ought to ring up Harare and get his nigga Mugape to order his "War Veterans" to fish out of niglimbs a year's supply of Guinea worms.
"First: Do No Good." - The Hymiecratic Oath
"The man who does not exercise the first law of nature—that of self preservation — is not worthy of living and breathing the breath of life." - John Wesley Hardin
Posted : 21/07/2006 10:14 pm