Gambian Man In US Charged With Torturing Prisoners In Home Country
A Gambian man living in Colorado was arrested Thursday on federal torture charges for his alleged role in abusing political prisoners suspected of plotting a failed coup in The Gambia in 2006.
Correa had entered the US in December 2016 to work as a bodyguard for Gambia’s vice president, who was visiting the United Nations, Dunn told reporters. In 2006, the indictment alleges, Jammeh’s government learned of a plot to overthrow him and arrested a number of individuals suspected of taking part in the attempted coup.
“The co-conspirators sometimes covered the victims’ heads with plastic bags restricting their ability to breathe and subjected some victims to electrocution on various parts of their bodies,” authorities said. “The indictment further alleges that one victim was suspended over the ground in a rice bag and beaten severely by the co-conspirators.”
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