The former Liberian President Charles Taylor has lost his appeal against a 50-year jail term for war crimes at a special UN-backed tribunal in The Hague.<br /><br />Rejecting defence claims that trial judges had made legal and factual errors, the appeal court upheld Taylor's conviction for aiding and abetting what one judge called "brutal and heinous" crimes. <br /><br />...<br />http://www.euronews.net/
