{"id":4931,"date":"2019-08-15T11:37:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T11:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=4931"},"modified":"2019-08-15T11:37:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T11:37:59","slug":"sudans-ex-spy-chief-banned-from-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/08\/15\/sudans-ex-spy-chief-banned-from-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s Ex-spy Chief Banned From The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former head of the Sudanese intelligence service, Salah Gosh, has been banned from entering the United States because of his alleged involvement in human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the US State Department said it had credible evidence that Mr Gosh was involved in torture when he was in charge of Sudan&#8217;s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS).<\/p>\n<p>Members of his family have also been barred.<\/p>\n<p>Omar al-Bashir, the country&#8217;s former president under whom Mr Gosh served, was ousted from power in April.<\/p>\n<p>A Transitional Military Council then seized control.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, voiced his support for a civilian-led transitional government in Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"1200\" data-height=\"1000\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecPompeo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Posts by SecPompeo<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>source: bbc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former head of the Sudanese intelligence service, Salah Gosh, has been banned from entering the United States because of his alleged involvement in human rights violations. In a statement, the US State Department said it had credible evidence that Mr Gosh was involved in torture when he was in charge of Sudan&#8217;s National Intelligence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5777,2735,5455,2264,10840,1765,5572,3805,12871,5655,1383,12778,7422,6730,7586,5350,9262,6348,1151],"class_list":["post-4931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-banned","tag-bbc","tag-family","tag-government","tag-human-rights","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-military","tag-president","tag-salah","tag-security","tag-security-services","tag-seized","tag-spy","tag-sudan","tag-torture","tag-twitter","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-secretary-of-state"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}