DENVER — An unprecedented trial began Monday in Denver’s federal district courthouse.
Michael Sang Correa, from The Gambia in West Africa, was indicted in 2020 and is the first non-United States citizen to be tried under Title 18, U.S. torture laws.
According to the indictment, Correa made his way to America in 2016 and eventually settled in Denver. He is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit torture and six counts of inflicting torture on specific individuals for crimes he allegedly committed in The Gambia in 2006…