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Michael Sang Correa, a former member of a hit-squad in Gambia, found guity of torture during the Yahya Jammeh regim, has been sentenced to 67 years and a half in prison by a Denver court in the US on Friday August 22, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

A Gambian man convicted of torturing opponents of the African country's former president was sentenced to more than 67 years in a US prison on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Sang Correa, 46, served in an armed unit known as the \"Junglers,\" which answered to The Gambia's then-president, Yahya Jammeh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Correa was convicted by a jury in Denver, Colorado, in April of torturing people because of suspicions they had plotted against Jammeh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Justice Department said the torture included burning victims with molten plastic and subjecting them to vicious beatings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Today, Michael Correa has finally been held accountable for the brutal violence he inflicted on others,\" acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Galeotti said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The United States will not be a safe haven for individuals who seek to conceal their egregious human rights violations.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jurors in Colorado heard how in March 2006, shortly after a failed coup attempt, the Junglers took their victims to The Gambia's main prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the next two months, they beat, stabbed, burned, and electroshocked their victims, including some on their genitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One man testified that he had his thigh burned by molten plastic; another told of how he was suffocated, while others spoke of being pistol whipped, burned with cigarettes and hit in the face with a hammer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Correa was convicted of five counts of torture and one of conspiracy to commit torture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Correa entered the United States in 2016 to work as a bodyguard for The Gambia's vice president, who was visiting the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He stayed in the country and moved to Denver at some point after Jammeh, who ruled the country with an iron fist from 1994 to 2017, was voted out of office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Correa was arrested by US authorities in September 2019, initially for overstaying his visa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paramilitary Junglers operated outside the Gambian army's chain of command, taking orders directly from Jammeh, and have been accused by watchdog groups of carrying out widespread human rights violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another member of the Junglers, Bai Lowe, was sentenced to life in prison in Germany in November 2023 after being convicted of crimes against humanity, murder and attempted murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Swiss court sentenced Gambian ex-interior minister Ousman Sonko to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed under the Jammeh regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victims of the Junglers included an AFP correspondent, Deyda Hydara, who was gunned down in his car on the outskirts of Gambia's capital Banjul on December 16, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n

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