Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor has been ordered to
serve the rest of his jail term in the UK, after losing a request to be
transferred to Rwanda.
Taylor complaining about not being able to see his
family, Taylor argued he was being held "effectively in isolation"
because he was "too much of a target and too vulnerable" to be kept
with other inmates of the Frankland prison in the northern English city of
Durham. He also said he wanted to be on the African continent, where people
would share a "cultural affinity" with him.
However, the judges rejected this argument, saying the
rejection of his wife's visa was "due purely to his wife's failure to
comply with the United Kingdom visa requirements and her ignoring the
assistance offered to her [by the registrar's office] to re-apply".
It is important to know that the Special Court for Sierra
Leone trial was held at The Hague on the agreement that he was jailed
elsewhere. An act of parliament was passed to allow for Taylor to
serve his sentence in the UK, at the cost of the British government, following
his conviction.
Taylor was sentenced in 2012 and arrived in the UK last
October, having unsuccessfully challenged the decision to be detained there.
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