US puts UN expert Albanese back on list of sanctioned individuals, Treasury website shows

May 27 (Reuters) – The United States has re-added UN expert on Palestinian lands Francesca Albanese to its list of sanctioned individuals, according to an announcement published on the U.S. Treasury website on Wednesday.

Here are the details:

• The United States imposed sanctions on Albanese in July 2025 for his efforts to encourage the International Criminal Court to take action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies and executives.

• Albanese was removed from the sanctions list in early May after a federal judge granted an injunction temporarily blocking the sanctions for his wife and daughter.

• ​U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington found that the Trump administration likely violated free speech rights by imposing these measures after he criticized U.S. ally Israel’s war in Gaza.

• On Friday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an administrative stay of Leon’s decision, allowing the government to once again enforce Albanese’s designation as a sanctioned foreign national.

• The appeals court decision stated that the administrative stay was procedural and that the government’s broader request to stay the lower court’s preliminary injunction pending appeal “should not be construed as a decision on the merits.”

(Reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones and Ismail Shakil; Editing by Stephen Coates)