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African warlord serving 50 years in
prison for crimes against humanity is suing Britain for denying him the right
to a family life. Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president who reportedly
ate the hearts of his enemies, says his incarceration in a jail in county
Durham keeps him from his wife and 15 children in Africa.
The UK agreed to imprison Taylor,
66, after he was convicted in 2012 of 11 counts of war crimes and crimes
against humanity, including terrorism, murder, rape and using child soldiers
during a civil war in Sierra Leone in the 1990s that left tens of thousands of
people dead.
He has now lodged legal papers with
the United Nations' Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, the Daily Mail
reported, claiming that his detention in the UK breaches his human rights.
Taylor is said to have written to
the Dutch court arguing that his family should be able to visit him more
easily.
He wrote: “My position is that
serving my sentence in Rwanda, in my home continent of Africa, would be
substantially more humane not only on my own account, but also on account of
the impact on my family.”
He also said he feared being
attacked by other inmates at HMP Frankland and that prisoners carrying out
their “own brand of justice” will soon lead to him being seriously injured or
killed.
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