Monrovia, April 30 -- Leading local and international human rights organizations have joined together to issue a statement urging Liberian President Joseph Boakai to renew an executive order for the Office of War and Economics Crimes Court set to expire tomorrow, May 1.

By Anthony Stephens, senior justice correspondent with New Narratives

The groups, including the Liberian based Civil Society Advocacy Platform of Liberia, Global Justice and Research Project, and international organizations, Civitas Maxima, Center for Justice and Accountability and Human Rights Watch, said the president must step up now - when cuts to US government aid have cast a cloud over the transitional justice process - to show the Liberian people his serious comm...