Overview

• Michael Sang Correa was convicted in a U.S. federal court for torturing five individuals suspected of involvement in a failed 2006 coup in Gambia.
• Correa was a member of the Junglers, a paramilitary unit reporting directly to former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh, and faces up to 120 years in prison.
• Survivors testified about brutal torture methods, including electrocution, burning with molten plastic, suffocation, and severe beatings, during the trial in Denver.
• Correa entered the U.S. in 2016 as a bodyguard for a Gambian official, later overstayed his visa, and was arrested in 2019 before being indicted in 2020 under a law prosecuting torture committed abroad.
• This conviction is part of broader international efforts to hold Jammeh’s regime accountable, with related trials in Switzerland and Germany also leading to significant sentences.