Friday, July 14, 2006

EU court rules asset freezes do not violate rights of terror suspects / Jurist PaperChase, 12 Jul 2006

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Joshua Pantesco
"The fundamental rights of two terror suspects were not violated when EU member states froze their assets, the European Court of First Instance [official website] ruled [press release, PDF] . Ireland and the UK froze the bank accounts of a Tunisian and Libyan national, respectively, after European Council Regulation 881/2002 [PDF text], which implemented several UN Security Council resolutions, authorized member states to freeze the assets of persons suspected of affiliation with al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, or the Taliban. "