GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for what the Special Court for Sierre Leone meeting in The Hague labelled some of the worst crimes in history in its ruling 30 May. Taylor, the 64-year-old former president of Liberia, was found guilty in April on 11 counts stemming from [...]
Argentina’s Angel of Death gets life
October 27, 2011 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Alfredo Astiz, a former Navy spy, was sentenced 26 October to life in prison, one of a dozen police and militia officers from the military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983. Astiz was condemned for crime against humanity. He was widely known as the Angel of Death for his [...]
Khmer Rouge chief gets 35 years
July 26, 2010 by
(video) Phnom Penh, Cambodia (GenevaLunch.com, agencies) – Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, was sentenced Monday 26 July to 35 years in prison with five years off for time served. Duch, age 67, was the man who ran Cambodia’s notorious S-21 prison where some 15,000 people died under the Khmer Rouge regime that saw one-quarter of [...]
