(SomaliNet) Liberia's ex president, Charles Taylor, has a son by the name of Charles McArthur Emmanuel. 29 year old Emmanuel has been sent to jail to answer charges pertaining to wrong identification. Emmanuel, commonly known as Charles "Chuckie" Taylor is accused of using a passport carrying a wrong name in order to facilitate his entry to USA. He says that he gave the wrong name because he was scared of using his father's name as he would not have easily entered USA. Emmanuel has spent the past eight months in jail after his arrest on March 30 at Miami International Airport.
However, his lawyer, Miguel Caridad, said that the passport issue was a set up to keep him in jail as preparations to make him answerable for torture cases against him are being completed. Emmanuel also appeared in court for having carried out war crimes in Liberia. He is a US citizen and was charged under a law forbidding a US citizen from involvement in war crimes abroad (outside USA).