A US federal court in Denver finds a Gambian guilty of torture in The Gambia
by editors@theworld.org (Carol Hills ) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6WP05)
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.