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US issues sanctions against Francesca Albanese, UN official investigating abuses in Gaza
(www.theguardian.com)
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What does issuing sanctions against a single person actually do, like functionally? I assume a ban on travelling to the US, but is that it? Is it anything like issuing a fatwa against someone?
No longer is able to work at the UN HQ (New York, New York).
travel restrictions, freezing of assets, and stuff. https://sanctionslawyers.net/blog-en/what-does-it-mean-to-be-sanctioned/
Destroying sources of data is quite fascist.
Why does the U.S.A. bother with hiding another country's crimes? genuine question
I'll never understand why the US does anything with regard to Israel.
The usa been commiting war crimes for decades nothing new
We plan to commit similar crimes in the future, you see?
I would expect nothing less from my piece of shit country. Taken over by MAGAts.
It was a piece of shit long before MAGA. It just got tired of pretending otherwise
The Biden admin already targeted UN officials and the ICC. This enjoys bipartisan support in the US.
There is nothing more beloved to the US oligarchy and their political representatives than committing war crimes and crimes against humanity with impunity.
Indeed and as a Sentor during Bush's reign, he also voted for the "Hauge Invasion Act", fuck Biden as well.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law
The Biden admin already targeted UN officials and the ICC.
And this is exactly why absolutely no one should be giving him a pass. He went the extra fucking mile to act as an accomplice.
"we don't like the reflection, so we're gonna break the mirror!"
Can't have her invesatigating US involvment. She must be a terrorist or something.