Inventing Reality

Also this even more extreme case

The sanctions against Doğru include the freezing of all bank accounts, an EU-wide travel ban and a de facto professional ban. This means that Doğru is forbidden from engaging in any form of paid employment or self-employment, and no one is legally permitted to provide him with any economic resources. In practice, even inviting him for a coffee would constitute a criminal offence.

Not only Doğru’s bank account but also that of his pregnant wife has been frozen, even though she is not named on the sanctions list. Doğru can access only a minimal subsistence allowance after weeks of approval by the Bundesbank (German Federal Bank). His freedom of movement has been curtailed, and he cannot legally be employed as a journalist—for instance by junge Welt, which enquired about hiring him—because, according to the German Economics Ministry, such employment would violate the EU’s “prohibition on making funds available” and would constitute a criminal offence.