Opening statements are expected Tuesday in the U.S. trial of a man accused of torturing political opponents of Gambia’s ...

The case marks the third prosecution in U.S. history to fall under the federal Torture Act, and Correa is the first foreign ...

He said that Jatta put off his uniform and started smocking cigarette and then placed a lit cigarette on his left shoulder. According to him, the cigarette burned his skin – a burn he still suffers ...

DENVER (AP) — Suspected of backing a coup plot against the longtime dictator of Gambia nearly 20 years ago, Pharing Sanyang ...

Michael Correa is accused of torturing at least six people in 2006 while he served in a special Gambian armed unit known as ...

DENVER — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a former Gambian soldier accused of torture in his home country, making ...

This is one of a few cases that have been tried in the U.S. under a law allowing prosecutions for suspected torture in ...

The country's truth commission, established in 2018, has accused dozens of officials who served during the rule of former ...

Michael Sang Correa, 45, faces six counts in a U.S. court related to the torture of five people in attempt to coerce ...

He is charged with both torturing five people suspected of involvement in the failed 2006 coup against Yahya Jammeh as well ...

a military unit that reported directly to former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh. Sanyang told jurors he eventually agreed to sign a false confession but wiped blood from his head onto the paper to ...