Francesca Albanese

Their aim is to create a chilling effect around the sanctioned person that you understand.

It makes total sense if the person is a narcotrafficking or a threat to the US.

And so you say, OK, I need to protect my citizens from someone who really represents evil to my people.

So all those who support or have relations with the sanctioned person transferring goods or services, they can be punished up to 20 years in jail or $1 million fine.

No, I've lost all my affiliations with the U.S.

partnerships, with U.S.

organizations, with U.S.

universities.

I've seen people running away from me because, of course, the chilling effect is powerful.

Those working on Palestine are vulnerable to this, to the capriciousness of this government, of this administration.

My main legal basis was the Genocide Convention.

The Genocide Convention is one of the most adamant and clear legal instruments ever produced by the international community.

And it says that the intention to destroy a national, ethnic, religious or racial group as such

is considered genocidal and it can happen through various acts.

Acts of killing members of the group or inflicting severe bodily or mental harm to members of the group, creating the conditions of life calculated to destroy

the group as such, the prevention of birth, of this attraction of children.

The thing is that these acts are crimes in and of themselves.

However, they constitute genocide when they are committed with intent to destroy the group, with the intent to destroy physically and biologically the group as such.

This is what I used.

I, of course, read the main jurisprudence existing in the Rwanda Tribunal, former Yugoslavia Tribunal, the International Court of Justice.