Alieu Kosiah

Alieu Kosiah was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity at his trial in Switzerland.

Liberia

Appeals court convicts Liberian Alieu Kosiah of crimes against humanity

5 June 2023 by Antoine Harari in Bellinzona (Switzerland)

A Swiss appeals court on June 1 confirmed a 20-year prison sentence for Alieu Kosiah, former commander of an armed group in Liberia in the 1990s. Kosiah was already the first person convicted of war crimes by a Swiss civil court. [...]

Alieu Kosiah

Liberia

Switzerland: Kosiah convicted in first universal jurisdiction trial

21 June 2021 by Antoine Harari

On June 18, after three months of deliberations, judges of the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona found former Liberian warlord Alieu Kosiah guilty of war crimes in the first universal jurisdiction trial to be held in Switzerlan [...]

Drawing of Alieu Kosiah during his trial in Switzerland

Liberia

Judgment awaited in Alieu Kosiah war crimes trial

8 March 2021 by Antoine Harari

The trial of former Liberian rebel fighter Alieu Kosiah ended on March 5 in Switzerland. Accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the early 1990s in Liberia, Kosiah denied being present at the time of the eve [...]

Dessin d'un avocat des victimes dans le procès Kosiah, en Suisse. © Leslie Lumeh

Liberia

In Swiss trial, Liberian victims tell chilling tales of Alieu Kosiah

22 February 2021 by Antoine Harari

The trial of Alieu Kosiah, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, resumed on February 15 in Switzerland. Six of the seven plaintiffs took the stand to give chilling accounts of crimes they say were committed by the for [...]

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