Alagie Barrow is a Gambian-American soldier and human rights investigator. He served as an officer in the United States Army National Guard from 2001 to 2014 before resigning from and going back to The Gambia, his country of birth. Frustrated and pained by the gross human rights abuses in The Gambia, he would join other Gambian dissidents and soldiers in attempting to overthrow the dictator, Yahya Jammeh, the President of the Gambia, who became president through a coup. Barrow would be charged by the US Government for his role in the coup attempt 2014 Gambian coup d'etat attempt, for which he was sentenced to six months imprisonment in the United States under the Neutrality Act 1794 after he voluntarily turned himself in and refused to cooperate with the American Justice Department calling