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By Maya Lester KC & Michael O’Kane

US authorises sanctions for foreign states involved in wrongful detention of US nationals

8 September 2025

US authorises sanctions for foreign states involved in wrongful detention of US nationalsBillion Photos/Shutterstock.com

US President Trump has signed a new executive order permitting the Secretary of State to impose sanctions on any foreign country which “directly engages in or provides support for the wrongful detention of a...

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Michael O'Kane
By Michael O'Kane

Michael is Senior Partner at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. He has acted in many of the most high profile and sensitive business crime cases of the last 25 years, at Peters & Peters and as a prosecutor. Michael was called…

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