The Hague: Interview with Courtenay Griffiths, the lead counsel for Charles Taylor
By Joseph Cheeseman in The Hague
Jan 2009
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January 21, 2009
For more than a year, the Prosecution of the Special Court for Sierra Leone has given the Judges of the court a barrage of documentary and circumstantial evidence that Charles Taylor gave financial, material and moral support to the Sierra Leone Rebel Group, the RUF in exchange for diamonds. Now, the team prosecuting Mr. Taylor is about to end its side of the war crimes trial. Mr. Taylor’s Legal Team is now preparing its side of the case. Joseph Cheeseman asks Taylor’s lead lawyer, Mr. Courtenay Griffiths: what is the biggest challenge the Defence Team is likely to face?
Click here to listen to BBC WST Joseph Cheeseman's report (January 21, 2009)