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Francesca Albanese Receives Prestigious Award From Spanish Prime Minister
Pedro Sánchez awarded the UN special rapporteur the Order of Civil Merit as the United States imposed sanctions over her Gaza genocide claims.
- On Thursday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez honored United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese with the Order of Civil Merit, recognizing her documentation of human rights violations in Gaza.
- Citing her work documenting violations over two years of conflict, Sánchez praised Albanese as "a voice that upholds the conscience of the world" while she has published four reports exposing Israeli atrocities.
- The United States imposed financial and visa sanctions on Albanese in July over her work, yet she told a Spanish broadcaster that nations attempting to silence her were "like an international mafia."
- Earlier this week, Sánchez petitioned the European Commission to activate the Blocking Statute, countering United States sanctions against Albanese and officials investigating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
- Albanese and Sánchez discussed the war on Gaza, which has killed at least 72,000 Palestinians since October 2023, emphasizing "the need for an immediate end to the violence and the building of a lasting peace.
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Spain awards UN rapporteur Albanese top civilian honour
Spain's Prime Minister awarded the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine with its highest civilian honour on Thursday for her work documenting atrocities in the Gaza Strip. Francesca Albanese was awarded the Order of Civil Merit, an honour conferred on Spanish and foreign nationals for exceptional services benefiting the state or society, by Pedro Sánchez in a ceremony in Madrid. Sanchez praised the UN expert as "a voice that upholds th…
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