(CNN)-- Three former guerrilla leaders -- who helped command what one activist called "one of the most brutal rebel movements in modern days" -- were sentenced Wednesday in Freetown, Sierra Leone ...

She lived Sierra Leone from 1999 to 2004, documenting atrocities. "It was difficult to find someone who hadn't been a victim of or a witness to a war crime," she said. Watch Jim Clancy's report on ...

His work included prosecuting crimes and advising commanders and service members in the laws of war. At the Special Court for Sierra Leone, he oversaw investigative and trial teams, including the one ...

It reinforces the principles that the tribunal applies the law equally and operates free from political influence by the Sierra Leone ... constituted a war crime at least since 1996, when the ...

Charles Taylor, the exiled former leader of Liberia who escaped custody days after Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo agreed to transfer him to face war crimes charges in Sierra Leone.

Accountability for serious human rights crimes committed during Sierra Leone’s war is essential for several reasons, including to bring justice to the victims, to punish the perpetrators ...

a London human rights lawyer and former judge on the Sierra Leone war crimes tribunal. “Aggression is the supreme crime. Many other deaths and maimings follow from an act of war.” He said the court ...

It is her usual spot for buying kush, a cheap synthetic drug ravaging young people in the country. The declaration was meant to enforce criminal, public health and prevention measures to reverse the ...

the COVID-19 pandemic and the global impacts of the war in Ukraine. Located in West Africa, Sierra Leone is a small country with complex challenges. Following a decade of civil war between 1991 and ...

He was found guilty at his trial of 11 crimes including terrorism, rape, murder and the use of child soldiers by rebel groups in neighbouring Sierra Leone during the vicious civil war of 1991-2002.