09/04/2025
FACTSHEET: The Trial of Michael Sang Correa
On August 23, 2024, we published a FACTSHEET: Universal Jurisdiction Trials – Germany, Swiss & U.S. Lead Justice Efforts for Gambia’s Survivors of Grave Human Rights Violations – the story, read 400 times since, details how three countries have since taken up the lead in bringing justice to survivors of gross human rights violations under Yahya Jammeh’s 22-year dictatorship, via universal jurisdiction trials in Genmany, Switzerland, and the United States.
While cases have concluded in Germany and Switzerland – convictions secured and sentencing handed down to Bai Lowe, a former member of a notorious death squad (‘The Junglers’) established by the ex-president, and Ousman Sonko, Jammeh’s former Minister of Interior – the third of such cases on crimes against humanity just begun in the United States on April 7, 2025, against Michael Sang Correa – another ‘Jungler’. The ‘Junglers’ was the name Jammeh’s death squad of rogue paramilitary officers was known as.
Read More: https://factcheckgambia.org/factsheet-the-trial-of-michael-sang-correa/
