Published on
21/05/2026 - 7:14 GMT+2
The US Treasury Department has lifted the sanctions imposed on the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese.
The change, announced in a notice posted on the Treasury’s website, lists Albanese’s name under “removals of sanctions related to the International Criminal Court”.
The Trump administration’s move comes a week after US federal judge Richard Leon suspended the sanctions against Albanese, upholding an appeal filed last February by the UN official’s husband and daughter. In his ruling, Judge Leon granted the family’s request, stressing that “protecting freedom of speech is ‘always’ in the public interest”.
