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>From: Joe Sambou <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Taylor: Hearing On Preliminary Objections Begins Today in Sierra
>            Leone
>Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:55:14 +0000
>
>folks, is Justice Emmanuel Olayinka Ayoola the Chief justice of Gambia?
>Please read on.
>
>
>Taylor: Hearing On Preliminary Objections Begins Today in Sierra Leone
>
>
>This Day (Lagos)
>
>October 31, 2003
>Posted to the web October 31, 2003
>
>Lillian Okenwa
>Abuja
>
>Former Liberian President, Mr. Charles Taylor, currently facing charges of
>war crimes and crimes against humanity has filed a notice of preliminary
>objection challenging the jurisdiction of the Special Court in Sierra Leone
>to try him.
>
>The court sitting in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital, will today begin
>public hearing into the objections raised by Taylor.
>
>The Session to be presided by a Queens Counsel, England's equivalent of a
>Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Geoffrey Robertson (QC), also has Justice
>Emmanuel Olayinka Ayoola who retired last Monday from the Supreme Court and
>is currently the Chief Justice of Gambia as a panel member.
>
>The court will sit from October 31 to November 7, 2003.
>
>In a statement signed by Mr. Femi Falana, secretary, African Bar
>Association
>(ABA), the association said Taylor is challenging the competence of his
>indictment on the grounds that he enjoyed immunity as a head of state of
>the
>sovereign state of Liberia when he was alleged to have committed the said
>war crimes in Sierra Leone.
>
>Also, Taylor is challenging the legality of the execution of his arrest
>warrant outside the borders of Sierra Leone.
>
>Some of the questions the Special Court would determine today include:
>
>whether the court has been lawfully established; whether the court's
>voluntary funding by the United Nation's member states deprives it of the
>necessary guarantees of independence and impartiality; whether the
>indictment of Charles Taylor at the time he was Liberian President or
>subsequently was invalid because he was immune from prosecution; whether in
>any event the writ issued him by the court can run outside Sierra Leone;
>whether the indictees can benefit from an amnesty or undertaking not to
>prosecute, allegedly given them before or in Lome agreement; and whether
>there is a crime of recruiting child soldiers in customary international
>law.
>
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