Khashoggi Ban is a

sanction A sanction may be either a permission or a restriction, depending upon context, as the word is an auto-antonym. Examples of sanctions include: Government and law * Sanctions (law), penalties imposed by courts * Economic sanctions, typically a b ...

and visa restriction announced by the

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in memory of the Saudi journalist and political

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Jamal Khashoggi Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi (; ar, جمال أحمد خاشقجي, Jamāl ʾAḥmad Ḵāšuqjī, ; 13 October 1958 – 2 October 2018) was a Saudi journalist, dissident, author, columnist for ''Middle East Eye'' and ''The Washington Post'', and a ge ...

. It "allows the

to impose visa restrictions on individuals who, acting on behalf of a foreign government, are believed to have been directly engaged in serious

extraterritorial In international law, extraterritoriality is the state of being exempted from the jurisdiction of local law, usually as the result of diplomatic negotiations. Historically, this primarily applied to individuals, as jurisdiction was usually cla ...

counter-dissident activities." As of February 2021, it is imposed on 76 Saudi Arabian citizens who are alleged to engaged with the government in counter dissident activities. Family members of such individuals also may be subject to visa restrictions under this policy, where appropriate. The

has also been directed to report on any such extraterritorial activities by any government in United States annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. The

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also informed that extraterritorial threats and assaults by

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against activists, dissidents, and journalists will not be tolerated.

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