Geneva, October 12 (RHC)-- An international appeals court has upheld a 50-year prison sentence for former Liberian president Charles Taylor for war crimes during the civil war in Sierra Leone.
Taylor was found guilty last year of overseeing crimes including murder, rape, sexual slavery and drafting child soldiers. He was the first African head of state to be found guilty in an international court and the first head of state convicted since World War II.
U.S. officials have previously confirmed Taylor worked for the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies during his emergence as a warlord in the 1980s.