BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) _ The European Union's highest court on Wednesday overturned a 2001 decision by EU governments to freeze the assets of a Saudi businessman and a Sweden-based charity suspected of funding al-Qaida terror groups.The Court of Justice ruling breaks with a U.N. anti-terror order obliging U.N. member states to freeze assets of people and entities it believes suspect of funding terror groups.The court acknowledged that the reasons for freezing the assets of Yasin al-Qadi and the Al-Barakaat International Foundation may be justified. But it said the order failed to offer those on a terror blacklist any legal rights to a judicial review under European law."The rights of the defense, 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. more..
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-court-terror-list,0,6319553.storyAhmad and James on Swedish bank's blacklist
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) _ The European Union's highest court on Wednesday overturned a 2001 decision by EU governments to freeze the assets of a Saudi businessman and a Sweden-based charity suspected of funding al-Qaida terror groups.The Court of Justice ruling breaks with a U.N. anti-terror order obliging U.N. member states to freeze assets of people and entities it believes suspect of funding terror groups.The court acknowledged that the reasons for freezing the assets of Yasin al-Qadi and the Al-Barakaat International Foundation may be justified. But it said the order failed to offer those on a terror blacklist any legal rights to a judicial review under European law."The rights of the defense, 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. more..http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-court-terror-list,0,6319553.story
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