{"id":67442,"date":"2026-02-26T14:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/family-of-un-official-sanctioned-by-us-over-israel-criticism-sues-white-house\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:59:24","slug":"family-of-un-official-sanctioned-by-us-over-israel-criticism-sues-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/family-of-un-official-sanctioned-by-us-over-israel-criticism-sues-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of UN official sanctioned by US over Israel criticism sues White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit against the Trump administration says penalties against Francesca Albanese violate the first amendment<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/feb\/26\/us-politics-latest-news-hillary-clinton-jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The family of independent UN investigator Francesca Albanese has sued the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> over US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/09\/israel-gaza-war-un-sanctions\">sanctions imposed on her<\/a> last year for her criticism of Israel\u2019s policies during the war with Hamas in Gaza, saying the penalties violate the first amendment.<\/p>\n<p>In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in the US district court in Washington, Albanese\u2019s husband and minor child outlined the serious impact those sanctions have had on the family\u2019s life and work, including the ability to access their home in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/26\/francesca-albanese-un-lawsuit-trump-sanctions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit against the Trump administration says penalties against Francesca Albanese violate the first amendment US politics live \u2013 latest updates The family of independent UN investigator Francesca Albanese has sued the Trump administration over US sanctions imposed on her last year for her criticism of Israel\u2019s policies during the war with Hamas in Gaza, saying &#8230; <a title=\"Family of UN official sanctioned by US over Israel criticism sues White House\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/family-of-un-official-sanctioned-by-us-over-israel-criticism-sues-white-house\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Family of UN official sanctioned by US over Israel criticism sues White House\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}