The United States has removed U.N. special rapporteur Francesca Albanese from its sanctions list, according to a May 20 notice posted by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
The notice said Albanese, listed as Francesca Paola Albanese, had been deleted from the Specially Designated Nationals list under an International Criminal Court-related sanctions program.
The sanctions barred her from entering the United States and banking there.
The move came a week after a federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of the sanctions, finding that the Trump administration likely violated Albanese’s free-speech rights by imposing the measures.
Albanese, an Italian lawyer based in Tunisia, serves as the “U.N. special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.”…