PARIS, France, March 8 -- Defense lawyers in the appeal of Kunti Kamara of his 2022 conviction for crimes against humanity, called for the trial to be abandoned on Wednesday. They entered a motion making a new claim that Kamara, a former Ulimo commander, was born four years later than previously claimed, meaning he would have been 15 at the time of the crimes during Liberia's first civil war, and too young to be tried in France's adult justice system.

By Prue Clarke and Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh with New Narratives

Kamara originally told immigration authorities in the Netherlands, where he applied for asylum as a refugee in 2021, that he had been born in 1974, making him 19 years of age in 1993, when the crimes were committed in Lofa County...