Charles taylor liberia special court martial convening

  • There was a court-martial board set up, a tribunal set up, they were represented by counsel and everything.
  • Not just Charles Taylor but the Liberian people had asked.
  • Taylor told the court that he did not support plans to attack Sierra Leone while he was in Libya in the late 1980s.

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    2024 Victoria J. Mastrobuono Award in Women’s Health – Dr. Marlena Fejzo 

    A deserving recipient of NOW Foundation’s Victoria L. Mastrobuono’s Award in Women’s Health, Dr. Marlena Fejzo has led a distinguished career focused on researching health challenges most often experienced by women. In March, Dr. Fejzo was honored as one of Time’s Women of the Year and, in May, she was named one of Time’s 100 Health leaders, advancing safe pregnancy.  Dr. Fejzo has made significant breakthroughs in research on Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG – a severe form of vomiting during pregnancy), fueled by her own personal experience with the condition. She successfully identified the gene with the greatest risk factor for developing the condition and is now turning her attention to identifying potential therapeutics. 

    Marlena Schoenberg Fejzo is a women’s health scientist. She received her Ph.D. in Genetics from Harvard University in 1995. From 2000-2020, she worked on ovarian cancer in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the laboratory of Dennis J. Slamon. Currently, she is a research faculty at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine in the Center for Genetic Epidemiology. &

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    As the cross-examination of former Liberian president Charles Taylor continued into a second week, Prosecutors this week told Special Court for Sierra Leone  that the former Liberian president was “not honest” with the United Nations Panel of Experts set up to investigate his alleged dealings with Sierra Leonean rebels. Mr. Taylor also this week admitted to prosecutors that he shared information with the spy agency of the same country he has accused of plotting his downfall: the United States.

    The UN Panel of Experts report released in 2000 accused Mr. Taylor of fuelling the conflict in Sierra Leone through diamonds and arms trade with Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels, a group that fought an 11-year conflict in Sierra Leone. In cross-examining Mr. Taylor on Thursday, lead prosecution counsel Ms. Brenda Hollis pointed out that when the UN Panel of Experts met with Mr. Taylor in 2000, the former president lied to them about the whereabouts of notorious Sierra Leonean rebel commander Sam Bockarie. In 1999, Mr. Bockarie, having fallen out with the leadership of the RUF, relocated to Liberia where Sierra Leonean rebels loyal to him were recruited into Mr. Taylor’s Anti-Terrorist Unit (ATU). According to some prosecution witnesses, Mr. Bockarie relocated to Liberia on Mr. Ta