“I’m Treated Like Osama bin Laden” – Francesca Albanese Responds to U.S. Sanctions
April 6, 2026UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese (@francesca.albanese.unsr.opt) is speaking out about the extreme measures being used to silence her. She describes being treated like a high level criminal by the U.S., with sanctions that literally block her from her own savings and make it illegal for American citizens to even interact with her.
Comparing her situation to being on a most wanted list, Albanese is exposing how far the system will go to crush anyone investigating human rights at the highest level.
This isn’t just about one person, it is about using financial warfare to kill off the truth.
STOP SILENCING US. ENOUGH.
Source: @royanewsenglish
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English Script:
Albanese: In a letter that was leaked by the US administration to the Secretary general, I was defined as a threat to the global economy. My husband would agree. To his economy for sure. To the household’s.
Interviewer: Now you have to use his credit cards also.
Albanese: Not his. Let me not go into details.
Interviewer: Yeah. Let’s not.
Albanese: Yes, but I’m literally, literally as penniless as I was when I was 18. It’s pretty embarrassing. Now, it’s not that I’m penniless. It’s just everything is blocked. You know, you have golden castles and you cannot access them. I don’t have golden castles, but I cannot access the few pennies I have. It’s okay. It’s the sanctions meant that considered financial censorship. So you see me. But in fact, I am pretty much like Osama bin Laden to the US. So it’s real and it’s not nice. I’m telling you, it’s nothing to laugh about, because it means that any US person interacting with me financially, even if you offer me a coffee, I don’t want to discourage you, but just for anyone having American citizenship, you risk to commit a felony. And so to, you risk 20 years of jail and up to $1 million. And my husband works for an American for a US based organization. And I have an American daughter. We used to live in the US. This is where I mean, we bought our apartment, we thought that we would go back to the US. Clearly not yet and, so the sanctions are clear. So first of all, it’s the first time in history that a state does it. Why? To silence me and to show the others that this is the way you hit people. They did it to the wrong person, clearly.
