HOSTAGES-EO14078

Executive Order 14078, signed on 19 July 2022, declared a national emergency over hostage-taking and the wrongful detention of US nationals abroad. It authorises blocking sanctions on foreign persons the Secretary of State determines are responsible for or complicit in holding US nationals, with the Treasury able to add their material supporters, and reinforces the government's hostage-recovery structures under the Levinson Act framework.

HOSTAGES-EO14078 includes 18 canonical entities and 18 authority records.