By Sheriff Saidykhan
Melissa Hindman, the assistant state prosecutor in Denver, Colorado, U.S. Federal Court, on Monday, dismissed count 5 against Michael Sang Correa due to the failure of Bunja Darbeo, identified as witness 4 is currently deployed abroad and unable to appear in court to give testimony.
This marks the first time a non-U.S citizen is standing trial in a U.S federal court for torture committed abroad.Michael Sang Correa is charged with six counts of torture and one count of conspiracy to commit torture.He is allegedly a former member of the Junglers, a notorious death squad in The Gambia operating under former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh.
The indictment alleges that following an attempted coup against Jammeh’s regime in 2006, Mr. Correa and other Junglers tortured suspected participants in the coup, including by beating them, suffocating them with plastic bags, and subjecting them to electric shocks
