ICE HSI Denver Secures 67-Year Sentence For Gambian Torturer; HRVWCC-Led Case Marks First Non-U.S. National Convicted Of Torture In U.S.

HSI Denver, supported by ICE’s Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center (HRVWCC), led the investigation that resulted in a 67-year federal sentence for Gambian national Michael Sang Correa on torture charges. The case involved cross-border coordination with HSI Senegal, the U.S. Embassy in Banjul, and the FBI, and DOJ notes it is the first U.S. torture conviction of a non-U.S. national. The action fits a recent cluster of ICE/HSI operations targeting alleged human-rights violators.