A federal court in Denver has found a former member of The Gambia’s military guilty of torturing five people accused of involvement in a failed coup against the West African country in 2006. This constitutes a rare prosecution in the United States for torture committed abroad. Carolyn Beeler speaks with Mariam Sankanu, a Gambian journalist who covered the trial in Denver, about what this case means for The Gambia.
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