TVC NEWS, SIERRA LEONE - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is asking to serve his 50-year prison sentence for war crimes in a Rwandan jail.
Taylor's appeal against his sentence for arming rebels during Sierra Leone's civil war in the 1990s was quashed by the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) in The Hague.
Last week, a UK minister confirmed that Taylor, 65, would be transferred to a British prison "in the UK to serve that sentence."
But Taylor in a letter sent to the SCSL, argued that it would be easier - and less expensive - for his family to visit him in Africa.
He also said he feared being attacked in a British prison.
His lawyer had earlier suggested that he would prefer to go to Rwanda to be closer to his family.
Sweden, Finland and Rwanda have also offered to take in Taylor.
Taylor's landmark sentence - on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity - was the first handed down by an international court against a former head of state since the Nazi trials at Nuremberg in 1946.
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