Francesca Albanese

I don't know, but the fact that the US did it, it's absurd because look, Tucker, I mean, I would like people to understand what the sanctions are because you talk to me and I don't think you

You see a criminal here, but this is what I am for the US system.

I'm banned from travel to the US, which is something that impairs my functions because the United Nations headquarters is based in New York.

I was supposed to present my last report in New York and I delivered it from South Africa because I cannot travel.

But not just that, I am financially censored.

which means that I cannot own assets, bank accounts I had in the US, then I will explain why in the US.

Everything has been shut down.

I have an American daughter.

I have an American daughter who's paying the price of having her mom telling the truth about crimes committed

in another place and just as serving the United Nations.

I am the first UN person to receive this in 80 years and it's absolutely abominable.

So it's very personal because it touches my financial capacity to exist because being sanctioned by the United States means that they cannot open a bank account anywhere

I cannot have a credit card.

I cannot function.

I cannot receive payment.

I cannot make payments.

My health insurance has been suspended.

Even rooms, hotel rooms booked in my name by someone else get canceled because I'm in Europe, because I'm sanctioned by the United States.

And think of there is a deeper meaning of it.

which is an extra layer of absurdity, because I also have deep ties to the United States.