Taylor arrives in The Hague
2006-06-20 22:35
The Hague - Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, whose war crimes trial before the Special Court of Sierra Leone is to be held in the Netherlands for security reasons, arrived at the detention centre in The Hague on Tuesday evening.
Taylor, 58, is to be held in the same prison that housed former Yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic.
The United Nations-backed Sierra Leone court, which sits in the Liberian capital Freetown, has struck a deal with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to use the latter's premises to conduct Taylor's trial.
Taylor was transferred to the detention unit of the ICC which shares a prison with the UN court which tried Milosevic.