America bans the entry of former Sudanese security chief Gosh into its territory

The US authorities have issued a decision banning the entry of the former head of the Sudanese security and intelligence service Salah Gosh to the United States, accusing him of torture.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday that Gosh and his family had been barred from entering the United States because of his involvement in corruption and human rights violations in Sudan.

"Gosh and others will be held accountable for human rights violations in Sudan," Pompeo wrote on his Twitter account.

Pompeo said Gosh, whose full name is Salah Abdullah Mohammed Saleh, was not eligible to enter the United States with his wife and daughter.

"The administration has credible information that Salah Ghosh was involved in torture during his tenure as head of the National Intelligence and Intelligence Service and took the step based on Article 7031 (c), which states that 'in cases where the foreign minister has credible information about foreign officials' involvement in corruption," he said. "These people and their immediate family members are not eligible to enter the United States."

The decision was named after the wife of Salah Gosh, Awatif Ahmed Said Ahmed Mohamed, as well as his daughter Shaimaa Salah Abdullah.

Pompeo added that he supports the popular demand in Sudan for a civilian transitional government that differs from the regime of ousted President Omar al-Bashir, especially with regard to the human rights file violated by the Bashir regime and its members such as Gosh and others.

According to the leaders of the Sudanese military junta that dismissed Bashir, Salah Gosh played an important role in bringing about change by siding with the popular revolution.

Gosh resigned two days after Bashir was ousted, and the NTC officials said he was under house arrest before they later announced that he could leave to an unknown destination.

Earlier, the prosecution in Sudan addressed the Transitional Military Council summoning the former director of the security service Salah Gosh "for the murder" of demonstrators, during the recent protests.

Prosecutors said she was unaware of Gosh's travel abroad, after reports of a foreign trip to Washington and Egypt.

Gosh, who studied engineering at Khartoum University, has worked with the intelligence service since the 1989 coup that brought Bashir to power.

During his first term as head of the intelligence service, which lasted until 2009, he was credited with building it to become one of the most important security tools in place in the Bashir regime.

Over the years, the agency has overseen prosecutions against opponents of the government and the media.

Gosh was later imprisoned after being accused of plotting a coup against Bashir, but no evidence was found to convict him. Bashir pardoned him and reappointed him as head of the intelligence service.

Amnesty International has urged the Sudanese Military Council to investigate Gush's practices during the bloody raids against demonstrators in the final weeks of Bashir's rule.

"The new Sudanese authorities should investigate the role of Salah Gosh in the killing of dozens of Sudanese demonstrators in the past four months," said WHO regional director Sarah Jackson in April.

She stressed that some inquiries about the killing of demonstrators during the recent protests, require his appearance before the Public Prosecution and respond to the charges and inquiries.