LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands — Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is appealing against his landmark war crimes conviction and 50-year prison sentence for arming and supporting murderous rebels in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war. Taylor's lawyers have put forward 45 different grounds of appeal against his conviction and sentence, while prosecutors are arguing Tuesday that judges should have found him guilty of ordering and instigating crimes and are asking appeals judges to raise his sentence to 80 years. — AP
