The former Gambian soldier is at the US trial about the allegations committed by torture in his homeland star-news.press/wp

Denver – The selection of jury started in the trial of the former Gambian military language in the accused of torture in his home country, making it the first non-trial in the United States due to the allegedly committed torture abroad.

Michael Correa, 45, former soldier in Gambia Army, is charged with six points of torture and helping and supporting torture and one counts of conspiracy.

He used to be a member of the armed and specialized military units known as the jungle, which was part of the armed forces of Gambia, but since then direct orders from which the President Yahy Jammeh, he cited the Federal Big Indictment for the Jury.

From March to April 2006, Correa and other members in the unit arrested several individuals to plan to overthrow the Gambia government, the court document said.

Correa tortured the victims by putting his weapons in his mouth, hit them with sticks and extinguishing cigarettes in his bodies within the prison, said the court document.

Correa tried to force the victim’s acknowledgment to admit that they had a role in trying to overthrow the government or that they politically objected to the President Jammeh “, documents say.

Correa is the first citizen who is not an American trial in the United States in the Federal Accusations of Torture abroad, said the Ministry of Spokesman Nicole Nicole Navas Oxman said.

Correa are lawyers, Boston Stanton Jr. And Jared Westbroek could not be achieved for a comment on Monday, and the federal prosecutors refused to comment.

“Michael Correa reportedly committed a terrible part of violence against the victim after the victim in the brutal effort to force the confession of the suspicion that prosecutors announced the charges.

In 2016, Correa traveled with Jamma in the United States to act as his bodyguard after the president was forced to exile, the NBC associated with the Kuša Denver reported.

But Correa crossed his visa and tried to hide in Colorado, the station reported. His last famous address was in Denver, the indictment said.

Twelve jurors and two alternatives were to be selected with introductory arguments that will be expected on Tuesday.