23.05.2006 - Source: Amnesty International

Federal High Court ruled admissible a legal challenge to government’s decision to grant asylum to Charles Taylor in 2003; the case was brought in by 2 torture victims ("Annual Report 2006") [ID 17604]

"Resolutions by the European Parliament in February and by the US House of Representatives in July called on the Nigerian government to hand over former Liberian President Charles Taylor to the Special Court for Sierra Leone to face charges of crimes against humanity, war crimes and other serious violations of international law. The government neither handed over Charles Taylor nor brought charges against him in the Nigerian courts. In November a federal High Court ruled admissible a legal challenge to the Nigerian government’s decision to grant asylum to Charles Taylor in 2003. The case had been brought in 2004 by two Nigerian nationals who had had limbs amputated by an armed group backed by the Liberian government during the conflict in Sierra Leone."

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