The United Nations special rapporteur to Palestine recently responded after the US issued sanctions against her for criticizing their support of Israel.

“It's a dangerous precedent because it creates a chilling effect for all special rapporteurs,” said Agnes Callamard, head of human rights giant Amnesty International and a former UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.

The United Nations is pushing back against the United States after President Trump’s administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the

An independent investigator is being sanctioned by the United States over her work scrutinizing human rights abuses in the Palestinian territory.

UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese tells Al Jazeera the move is retaliation for ‘pursuit of justice’ in Israel’s Gaza war.

The Palestine Solidarity Network has just demanded that the government speak out against the US sanctions imposed on United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Albanese released a damning report identifying companies complicit in Israel’s mass killing and mass starvation of civilians in Gaza, provoking the US to sanction her.

An independent U.N. investigator and outspoken critic of Israel’s actions in Gaza said “it was shocking” to learn that the Trump administration had imposed sanctions on her.