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Gambian national Michael Sang Correa was convicted by a Colorado jury for participating in the torture of victims in 2006, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Tuesday.
Correa was a part of a paramilitary unit known as the “Junglers,” run by Yahya Jammeh, dictator and former Gambian president. The victims told the jury that he had been taken part in torture, including electrocution, stabbing, burning, and beating five people that were alleged to have been involved in a coup plot against Jammeh. Correa was found guilty after a week-long trial in Denver, Colorado.
Correa arrived in the US in 2016 and was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for overstaying his visa in 2019 after three years of working as a day laborer. He was later arrested and charged in 2020 by the US District Court for the District of Colorado under 18 USC 2340A, which makes it an offense to commit war crimes inside or outside the US, including torture under section (d)(1)(A).
According to the DOJ, Correa faces a maximum penalty of 20 years of imprisonment for the five counts of torture and the count of conspiracy to commit torture. He currently remains in US custody, and a federal district court judge will determine his sentence on a later date. Correa is the first non-US citizen to be convicted of torture committed abroad in a federal district court.
Jammeh seized power in 1994, and his rule was defined by claims of human rights abuses. In 2015, Human Rights Watch outlined abuses by state security forces, such as the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), and pro-government paramilitaries during Jammeh’s rule. Abuses included forced disappearances, arbitrary detention, psychological abuse and torture. The NIA had been involved with the arbitrary arrests and detention of journalists, students, civil servants and LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Gambian Ministry of Justice said in December that the Heads of States of the Economic Community of West African States approved establishing a special tribunal to prosecute Jammeh and his accomplices.
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Correa was a part of a paramilitary unit known as the “Junglers,” run by Yahya Jammeh, dictator and former Gambian president. The victims told the jury that he had been taken part in torture, including electrocution, stabbing, burning, and beating five people that were alleged to have been involved in a coup plot against Jammeh. Correa was found guilty after a week-long trial in Denver, Colorado.
Correa arrived in the US in 2016 and was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for overstaying his visa in 2019 after three years of working as a day laborer. He was later arrested and charged in 2020 by the US District Court for the District of Colorado under 18 USC 2340A, which makes it an offense to commit war crimes inside or outside the US, including torture under section (d)(1)(A).
According to the DOJ, Correa faces a maximum penalty of 20 years of imprisonment for the five counts of torture and the count of conspiracy to commit torture. He currently remains in US custody, and a federal district court judge will determine his sentence on a later date. Correa is the first non-US citizen to be convicted of torture committed abroad in a federal district court.
Jammeh seized power in 1994, and his rule was defined by claims of human rights abuses. In 2015, Human Rights Watch outlined abuses by state security forces, such as the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), and pro-government paramilitaries during Jammeh’s rule. Abuses included forced disappearances, arbitrary detention, psychological abuse and torture. The NIA had been involved with the arbitrary arrests and detention of journalists, students, civil servants and LGBTQ+ individuals.
The Gambian Ministry of Justice said in December that the Heads of States of the Economic Community of West African States approved establishing a special tribunal to prosecute Jammeh and his accomplices.
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