DENVER — After a first-of-its-kind trial in Colorado federal court, a Gambian man was sentenced to more than 67 years in prison Friday on torture charges for abusing political prisoners in his home country .

Michael Sang Correa, 46, was indicted in 2020 and is the first non-United States citizen to be tried and convicted under Title 18, U.S. torture laws. This was only the third trial under the Torture Act since it was passed in 1994, as Denver7 reported earlier this year. First-of-its-kind trial begins in Denver's federal courthouse over torture charges

Correa was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit torture and six counts of inflicting torture on specific individuals for crimes he committed in The Gambia in 2006.

Evidence from the trial showed that Correa served in an

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