Swiss court upholds Liberian ex-rebel commander's 20-year sentence, overturns crimes against humanity conviction
Alieu Kosiah's war crimes conviction stands; Civitas Maxima says it is the first by a Swiss civilian court, while the court says the crimes-against-humanity offence cannot apply to earlier acts
Switzerland's supreme court on Friday upheld the 20-year prison sentence of former Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah for war crimes, but overturned a separate conviction for crimes against humanity, ruling the charge could not be applied retroactively to acts committed before it entered Swiss law in 2011.