Liberia: Financial Crisis - Court Considers Releasing Taylor

24 February 2009

Lagos — Former Liberian President Charles Taylor may walk free because the global financial crisis has cut donations to the court trying him for war crimes committed in neighbouring Sierra Leone, its Chief Prosecutor Stephen Rapp yesterday said.

Reuters reported that the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone, which is pursuing those held most responsible for atrocities during the country's 1991-2002 civil war," faces a budget shortfall of more than $5 million from May."

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