Liberia Warlord Taylor's Ex-Wife Slams Dismissed Torture Charges Upon Return

The ex-wife of jailed former Liberian president Charles Taylor, has denounced charges of torture she had faced in the UK as "misinformation and lies" upon her return to Monrovia. Agnes Reeves-Taylor told journalists she had been treated like a "terrorist" while held in London to face the charges, which were dismissed in December last year.

Reeves-Taylor called the press-conference on Monday to "set the record straight" over the accusations of crimes during the Liberian Civil War which she says she did not commit.

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