Tag: Massaquoi

The proceedings ended on Friday, with the Court only able to hear nine of the eleven witnesses it had scheduled ...

Prosecutors say the alleged crimes were committed between June and August 2003.

The Court has traveled to Liberia for the second time in less than a month to particularly hear defence witnesses ...

Prosecutors have alleged it was in those towns and other areas, including Kamatahun and Kortuhun that Mr Massaquoi raped and ...

“Defence 5” and “Defence 12” claimed Gibirl Massaquoi, a former commander for the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), of Sierra Leone, ...

Finnish Turku Court of Appeals has heard over fifty witnesses in Monrovia.

Massaquoi has denied all the charges.

“I heard people yelling because of the fire,” said soldier 50, who claimed he was an officer of the Anti-Terrorist ...

For about 3 weeks now, the court has been hearing from dozens of witnesses, some of whom testified in the ...

Says he gave “shoot and kill” orders at Waterside.

During convicted war criminal Alieu Kosiah’s appeal hearing in Switzerland this month two witnesses claimed to have been threatened by ...

Kimmo Vanne, presiding judge of the Turku Appeals Court which is hearing the case, said proceedings will be open to ...

The judge said prosecutors had failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Massaquoi committed the crimes of rape, ritual ...

Massaquoi's charges include rape, ritual murder and recruitment of child soldiers, which prosecutors say he committed during Liberia’s second civil ...

The prosecution and defense teams have wrestled with new evidence.

The four-judge Finnish panel hears testimony in a secret location in Liberia in the trial of Gibril Massaquoi.

“People who did wickedness in my country I want them to face justice, even if it is me, I should ...

51-year-old Massaquoi is standing trial in Finland and has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity during Liberia’s ...

If found true the revelations would cast a cloud over the findings of the Special Court for Sierra Leone and ...

The court was initially scheduled to rule on the Massaquoi case this autumn.

"...he sent for his board and called out my two friends that went with me. He put their necks on ...

“When Massaquoi arrived in Waterside and saw ‘Yeanni’ and ‘Salami’, he said, ‘Gentlemen you guys are doing well, fire anybody ...

Tuesday’s first witness bears a scar on her right leg that she said gives her a vivid memory of the ...