Gambian national charged over attempted coup

A Gambian man living in Colorado has been charged over his alleged role in abusing suspected plotters of a failed 2006 coup in his home country against then President Yahya Jammeh. BBC News reports that Michael Correa was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit torture and six counts of inflicting torture. He was a member of an armed unit known as the 'Junglers' that answered to Jammeh who was in office between 1996 and 2017. Jammeh is accused of having stolen millions of dollars from government coffers and his assets were frozen by many countries when he went into exile in Equatorial Guinea. Legalbrief reports that his successor Adama Burrow appointed a truth and reconciliation commission to investigate any possible crimes committed by Jammeh.

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