Specially Designated Global Terrorist
U.S. sanctions designation created by Executive Order 13224 of September 2001, first applied to a white supremacist group with the Russian Imperial Movement in 2020 and to the Terrorgram Collective in 2025.
A Specially Designated Global Terrorist is a person or entity designated under Executive Order 13224, "Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism," which President George W. Bush signed on September 23, 2001, and which was published in the Federal Register two days later.1 Designations are made by the Department of State or by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which enters the designees on its list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons. A designation blocks the designee's property under American jurisdiction; unlike a Foreign Terrorist Organization designation, it does not by itself bring the criminal prohibition on material support in 18 U.S.C. 2339B.2 Presidents have continued to use the order: on January 20, 2025, one designated cartels and other organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists, and on November 24, 2025, certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood.1
White Supremacist Designations
On April 7, 2020, the State Department designated the Russian Imperial Movement of Saint Petersburg and three of its leaders, its founder Stanislav Vorobyev, the Imperial Legion commander Denis Gariev and the external-relations coordinator Nikolay Trushchalov, under the order as amended by Executive Order 13886, the first time the United States had applied a terrorist designation to a white supremacist organization. The designation rested on the movement's having "provided training for acts of terrorism": two members of the Nordic Resistance Movement had trained at its Partizan camp before the bombings in Gothenburg.3 On June 15, 2022, OFAC designated two further supporters of the movement.4
On January 13, 2025, the State Department designated the Terrorgram Collective and three of its leaders, the Brazilian channel administrator Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira, the Croatian Noah Licul and the South African Hendrik-Wahl Muller; the Federal Register notice was published on January 15, 2025.56 In 2023 the Brazilian researcher Michele Prado of Stop Hate Brasil had reported Telegram channels linked to Ferreira to Brazil's intelligence agency, ABIN, and its Ministry of Justice.7
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Sources
- Federal Register, documents 01-24205 (Executive Order 13224, signed September 23, 2001, published September 25, 2001), 2025-02004 (signed January 20, 2025, published January 29, 2025) and 2025-21664 (signed November 24, 2025, published November 28, 2025), via the Federal Register API. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2001/09/25/01-24205/blocking-property-and-prohibiting-transactions-with-persons-who-commit-threaten-to-commit-or-support ↩
- U.S. Department of State. "The U.S. Department of State's Designation of the Russian Imperial Movement and its Leaders as Global Terrorists." April 7, 2020. https://2017-2021.state.gov/the-u-s-department-of-states-designation-of-the-russian-imperial-movement-and-its-leaders-as-global-terrorists/index.html ↩
- U.S. Department of State. "The U.S. Department of State's Designation of the Russian Imperial Movement and its Leaders as Global Terrorists." April 7, 2020; BuzzFeed News (J. Lester Feder). "These Swedish Nazis Trained In Russia Before Bombing A Center For Asylum Seekers." ↩
- U.S. Department of the Treasury. "U.S. Sanctions Members of Russian Violent Extremist Group." Press release jy0817, June 15, 2022. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0817 ↩
- U.S. Department of State. "Terrorist Designations of The Terrorgram Collective and Three Leaders." January 13, 2025. https://2021-2025.state.gov/office-of-the-spokesperson/releases/2025/01/terrorist-designations-of-the-terrorgram-collective-and-three-leaders/ ↩
- Federal Register, vol. 90, no. 10, document 2025-00756, "Specially Designated Global Terrorist Designations of The Terrorgram Collective, Ciro Daniel Amorim Ferreira, Noah Licul, and Hendrik-Wahl Muller," January 15, 2025. ↩
- GNET. "Terrorgram and Youth Radicalisation: Understanding Brazil's Online Extremist Landscape." November 22, 2024. ↩
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- Event2017 Gothenburg Neo-Nazi Bombings
- Event2022 Aracruz School Shootings
- PersonAiden Bruce-Umbaugh
- OrganizationAtomwaffen Division
- PersonCiro Daniel Amorim Ferreira
- PersonDallas Humber
- PersonKaleb Cole
- PersonMichele Prado
- PersonNoah Licul
- OrganizationRussian Imperial Movement
- ConceptSpecially Designated Global Terrorist
- OrganizationStop Hate Brasil
- OrganizationTerrorgram Collective
- EventU.S. Government Designations of Accelerationist-Russia Nexus
- EventUnited States v. Humber