EU court upholds 9/11 terror asset freezes
Posted on: Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 06:08 CDT
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - A top European court on Wednesday threw out challenges by two terror suspects to freezes on their assets imposed in a global clampdown on people linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Chafiq Ayadi, a Tunisian national resident in Ireland, and Faraj Hassan, a Libyan national detained in a British jail, had complained that the freezes on their bank accounts and assets infringed their rights and asked for them to be annulled.
But the Luxembourg-based European Court of First Instance ruled that European Union authorities had the competence to impose such a sanction to fight terrorism.
"Such a measure does not infringe the universally recognized fundamental rights of the human person," the court said in a statement, adding that any individual challenges on such freezes should go first through national appeal channels.
After the September 11 attacks the U.N. Security Council passed resolutions urging states to freeze the funds of those suspected of links to al Qaeda and the Taliban, the hard-line Islamists who sheltered al Qaeda in Afghanistan before they were ousted by a 2001 U.S.-led invasion.
The same European court ruled last September, in an earlier case, that EU authorities had the right to impose asset freezes in the fight against terrorism. A dozen similar appeals are outstanding.
Source: REUTERS
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