Liberia: U.S. Prosecutor Explains Bail Rejection - Woewiyu 'Flight Risk'

"There was a detention hearing and Mr. Woewiyu was ordered detained by a U.S. Magistrate judge. The judge found that he (Woewiyu) was a flight risk, and so she ordered him detained pending his trial." Linwood C. Wright, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Philadelphia

The U.S. Prosecutor handling the immigration charges against Mr. Thomas Juncontee Woewiyu, the former influential figure in Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, says flight risk was a key reason a Philadelphia judge denied Woewiyu bail.

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