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A Big Man in a Small Cell: Charles Taylor and the Special Court for Sierra Leone

On March 29, 2006, a United Nations (UN) helicopter carrying former Liberian president Charles Taylor flew over Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, and landed in the fortified compound of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Special Court). Cheering crowds flowed into the streets around the Special Court at the sight of the arriving helicopter, and once it landed, Charles Taylor entered cell number three at the court's detention center to await his trial on charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Only a few weeks earlier, Taylor had seemed untouchable, comfortably exiled in a Nigerian…