The EU's Court of Justice on Wednesday (3 September) overturned a decision by member states to freeze the assets of Saudi businessman Yassin Abdullah Kadi and the Al Barakaat International Foundation established in Sweden. The Luxembourg-based court found that EU governments had breached the rights of both parties - added to the United Nations blacklist of terror suspects in 2001 - by not telling them why their assets had been frozen. The EU's anti-terror list was set up in the aftermath of the September 2001 terrorist attacks It also concluded that they had not been given sufficient rights of defence or to effective judicial protection. "The rights of the defence, in particular the right to be heard and the right to effective judicial review of those rights were patently not respected," the court ruling said. Yassin Abdullah Kadi and the Al Barakaat International Foundation are both suspected of supporting terrorism by channeling their funds to al-Qaeda and Ossama bin Laden.
The EU's Court of Justice on Wednesday (3 September) overturned a decision by member states to freeze the assets of Saudi businessman Yassin Abdullah Kadi and the Al Barakaat International Foundation established in Sweden.
The Luxembourg-based court found that EU governments had breached the rights of both parties - added to the United Nations blacklist of terror suspects in 2001 - by not telling them why their assets had been frozen.
The EU's anti-terror list was set up in the aftermath of the September 2001 terrorist attacks
It also concluded that they had not been given sufficient rights of defence or to effective judicial protection.
"The rights of the defence, in particular the right to be heard and the right to effective judicial review of those rights were patently not respected," the court ruling said.
Yassin Abdullah Kadi and the Al Barakaat International Foundation are both suspected of supporting terrorism by channeling their funds to al-Qaeda and Ossama bin Laden.
What about, "Victory for due process against blind anti-terror measures"? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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But, since you wrote (11/2007) that EUObserver has a "fair editorial line", I've got the feeling of a slide to a less Europe-friendly slant, an increasingly pervasive house style that sometimes feels like one is reading AP (possible, of course), some kind of British press on Europe, or even almost the English-language pages of Spiegel.
I'm also a bit surprised by this headline, as this is a story of a conflict between two EU institutions which they framed as being a blowback for Europe. I'd think they'd be a bit more interested in civil rights as opposed to European regulation. But maybe here something like war on terrah rules apply?
