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Former Jungler sentenced to over 67 years for torture

22.08.2025 - (Last modified: 23.08.2025)
Denver, Colorado, USA – Today, a federal judge sentenced Michael Sang Correa to 810 months or 67.5 years in prison for t...
Courtroom sketch showing Michael Correa with his lawyers, during his trial in in Denver on 7 April 2025. Drawing by Robyn Cochran-Ragland / CJA.
U.S. Federal Court will be conducting sentencing hearing of former Jungler, Michael Sang Correa on 22 August 2025, in Denver, Colorado, USA. On 15 April 2025, after a five-day trial in U.S. federal court, a Denver jury found Michael Sang Correa guilty of five counts of torture and one count of conspiracy to commit torture. Mr. Correa was a member of the Junglers, a...

U.S. Jury finds Gambian death squad member guilty of torture

15.04.2025 - (Last modified: 16.04.2025)
Denver, Colorado, USA 15 April 2025 – Today, a Denver jury found Michael Sang Correa guilty of five counts of torture an...
Witnesses in front of the courthouse after the Correa trial Denver
Denver, CO (United States) and Banjul (The Gambia), March 26, 2025 - Michael Sang Correa, an alleged member of a Gambian...
Chronology visual Michael Correa case US
(Banjul, Denver, Geneva, 12 September 2024) - The trial against Michael Sang Correa for torture allegedly committed in The Gambia, originally scheduled for 16 September 2024, has been postponed. Last week, Correa’s defense lawyers filed two motions with the court. The motions explained that the defense wanted to present testimony from two witnesses to support the a...
Denver (United States) and Banjul (The Gambia), 26 August 2024 – Michael Sang Correa, an alleged member of a Gambian dea...
Frequently asked questions and answers   1. Who is Michael Correa and what are the charges against him? Michael Correa, a Gambian citizen, will stand trial in September 2024 for allegedly torturing people in The Gambia in 2006. He is accused of being part of the “Junglers”, a death squad that committed human rights abuses at the direction of former President Y...

Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review: Highlights in 2023

15.04.2024 - (Last modified: 16.04.2024)
TRIAL International, in collaboration with Civitas Maxima, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), the European...
Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review 2024

Alleged Gambian death squad member to stand trial in the USA

02.11.2023 - (Last modified: 03.11.2023)
(San Francisco and Geneva, November 2nd, 2023) – Michael Correa, an alleged member of former Gambian dictator Yahya Jamm...
US District Court for the District of Colorado
An op-ed by Philip Grant President Trump’s support for torture goes against everything TRIAL International fights for....

George W. Bush

16.05.2016 - (Last modified: 17.02.2017)
During his presidential mandate in the United States, George W. Bush authorized the CIA, in a directive dated September 17, 2001, to abduct suspected terrorists and hold them in secret detention centers, mainly in Guantanamo Bay, but also in Afghanistan, Thailand, Poland and Rumania. At these centers, Mr Bush authorized the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques”,...

G8 commitment to tackle impunity for rape in conflict welcome

12.04.2013 - (Last modified: 13.07.2017)
London/Geneva, 12 April 2013 – A Declaration on Preventing Sexual Violence In Conflict was agreed yesterday by the G8 countries, declaring that rape and other serious sexual violence amount to war crimes and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions constitutes an emphatic reminder that states are required to investigate and prosecute conflict-related sexual violence w...