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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 10 > Ex-Liberian leader’s son gets 97 years in prison

Ex-Liberian leader’s son gets 97 years in prison


January 10, 2009

MIAMI — Charles McArthur Emmanuel, the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor and head of a savage paramilitary unit known as the “Demon Forces,” was sentenced Friday to 97 years in prison for torture overseas in the first U.S. case of its kind.

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