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MIAMI — The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who commanded a brutal paramilitary unit in his father’s government, was ordered Friday by a federal judge to pay $22.4 million in damages to five Liberians who were tortured and abused during the West African nation’s bloody civil war.
The Liberians sued Charles McArthur Emmanuel shortly after he was sentenced to 97 years in prison under a U.S. anti-torture law. The Emmanuel criminal case was the first and so far only prosecution under that 1994 law, which allows U.S. charges for torture committed overseas.
