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EU court upholds 9/11 terror asset freezes
 LUXEMBOURG: 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 Sept. 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 recognised fundamental rights of the human person," the court said in a statement.Posted by: Fred 2006-07-13 |
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