The Special Court Chief Security Officer, Saleem Vahidy, is reportedly having pressure from witnesses promised relocation after surrendering testimonies in the wells of the court\u2019s chambers – trial chambers I &II.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is a fact that Saleem, who acts as chief security officer for the Special Court, acts also as head of Witness Victims Section (WVS).\u00a0<\/p>\n
It has also been told that Saleem,a few months past, was in Ghana with a witness for medical checkups, but returned after confirming that the witness has an infectious sickness.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Be it known that one of Revolutionary United Front (RUF) commander, who testified in the AFRC and RUF trials, Gibril Massaquoi, has since been relocated with his family to a country far off Sierra Leone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Disclosures also have it that Saleem has never granted relocation opportunities to any of the hundreds of Special Court defence witnesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is reported though that a witness, sometime in 2010, approached Saleem along Crown Bakery in central Freetown, commanding him to arrange his relocation or face the wrath.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The witness, we are told, was a prosecution witness and has long been flown out of the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shades of opinion query unfair conduct of management of the Special Court on issues adjoining the relocation of witnesses to western countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Inside Special Court source has revealed to this press that members attached to the defence are working on plans to locate better lawyers that will defend persons indicted for contempt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reflection must be drawn to the serialized and countless indictments of members attached to or have dealings with the defence section of Special Court for contempt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just recently, five persons, all of whom have attachments to the defence of Special Court, faced charges of contempt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Their indictment, according to a release put out by the court, came owing to allegation that the accused interfered with a witness that testified in the Charles Taylor trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It has been confirmed that the witness who claims to have been interfered with, is seemingly in a state of confusion owing to his present medical status; Saleem Vahidy knows it all, but is scared to say it out.\u00a0
\nMore on this next issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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