A man who came to Denver in 2016 was sentenced to more than 67 years in prison Friday for repeated beatings and politically motivated tortures committed a decade earlier in Gambia.

Forty-six-year-old Michael Sang Correa was convicted in April on one count of conspiracy to commit torture and five counts of torture. The trial was held in a federal court in Denver. Correa's conviction was the third time in which a defendant has been found guilty of torture in a federal court, but the first such conviction of a non-U.S. citizen , according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

An undated photo of Michael Correa during his service with the "Junglars" of The Gambia. Correa was sentenced Friday for the 2006 torture of six perceived political enemies of the country's then-president. Correa came t

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