--- category: "Law Enforcement & Legal" aliases: - "SDGT" tags: - Law - USGovernment - Sanctions - CounterTerrorism summary: "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." location: "United States" start: 2001-09-23 relations: - type: subject_of with: "[[Russian Imperial Movement]]" reverse: true start: 2020-04-07 fn: 3 - type: subject_of with: "[[Terrorgram Collective]]" reverse: true start: 2025-01-13 fn: 5 created: 2026-09-22 updated: 2026-09-22 --- 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 [[State Department|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 [[2017 Gothenburg Neo-Nazi Bombings|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.[^5][^6] 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] ### Footnotes [^1]: 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 [^2]: 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 [^3]: 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." [^4]: 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 [^5]: 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/ [^6]: 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. [^7]: GNET. "Terrorgram and Youth Radicalisation: Understanding Brazil's Online Extremist Landscape." November 22, 2024.