MONROVIA, Liberia—Finland’s Turku Court of Appeal has concluded the second phase of hearings in Liberia of witnesses for Gibril Massaquoi, the Sierra Leonean man accused of war crimes in Liberia.
The proceedings ended on Friday, with the Court only able to hear nine of the eleven witnesses it had scheduled for this phase of the proceedings.
The two other witnesses—a policeman and civilian couldn’t travel to Liberia, because the latter is hospitalised, while the boss of the former didn’t approve his trip. The Court was forced to change its original plan of traveling to Sierra Leone, because the government there didn’t approve the trip.
