By RFIPosted on 15-08-2019Modified on 15-08-2019 at 22:16
US diplomacy has placed Salah Gosh under sanction for "involvement in gross violations of human rights in Sudan." This was announced by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday, August 14 ... Salah Gosh was the leader of the NISS, the Sudanese intelligence service under Omar al-Bashir. He had resigned last April, a few days after the fall of the former president. He is accused of numerous abuses by human rights organizations.
Salah Gosh, his wife and daughter are now banned from entering the United States. Sanctions justified by credible information on the involvement of the former Sudanese intelligence chief in cases of torture, the State Department explains.
Also accused by Human Rights Watch of ethnic cleansing in Darfur, Salah Gosh was head of the NISS from 1999 to 2009, a position he took over in 2018. So he was the one who oversaw the violent crackdown on the protests that led to at the fall of Omar al-Bashir .
After his resignation in April, Amnesty International called on the transitional authorities to investigate his role in the deaths of several protesters. So far, however, he was considered untouchable. Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, he had indeed positioned himself as a strong ally of the United States in the fight against terrorism.
But today, the tone has changed. In announcing the sanctions, Mike Pompeo reaffirmed his support for the Sudanese people, while denouncing " the abuses of the regime of Omar el-Bashir perpetrated by Salah Gosh and other officials ."
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