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Chuckie Taylor, son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, says he is the victim of a miscarriage of justice and wants his case reopened. He was convicted by a US court in 2009 and sentenced to 97 years in jail for torture and related crimes that he committed in Liberia when he led a notorious military unit known as the Antiterrorist Unit (ATU), under his father's rule. Taylor, who is a US citizen, was prosecuted and convicted under the US extra-territorial torture statute. He has changed his name to Gumayi and says he has distanced himself from his father. Speaking to Focus on Africa's Audrey Brown from his prison cell at a high-security federal prison in Virginia, he maintained that he was unjustly convicted of the charges against him. (Photo: Chuckie Taylor aka Gumayi. Courtesy of Cortesia De Johnny Dwyer Y Lynn Henderson)