US removes Vinck and Barakaat international from domestic terrorist list, but not Kadi and Sayadi

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) removed Patricia Rosa Vinck, Barakaat International, and Barakaat International Foundation from its Specially Designated Nationals List on November 3, having found that Vinck and the two entities no longer present a significant threat of supporting terrorism.  Today’s action was taken in conjunction with [...]

Academic articles of interest

Amos N.Guiora – Religious Extremism: A Fundamental Danger Nikos Lavranos – Judicial Review of UN Sanctions by the European Court of JusticeDevika Hovell – A House of Kadis? Recent Challenges to the UN Sanctions Regime and the Continuing Response to the ECJ Decision in KadiLiza Goitein – Preventive Detention in a Different Kind of [...]

CFI follows Kadi in Othman v Council and Commission (Case T-318/01)

Othman, better known as Abu Qatada, has been designated by the Sanctions Committee of the Security Council of the United Nations as being associated with Usama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda or the Taliban. his name was added to the summary list on 19 October 2001, and then included in the list in the Community regulation. He [...]

Council of Europe Commitee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights calls on Obama to hold perpetrators of torture accountable

Read the working document by Mrs. Herta Däubler-Gmelin for the Council of Europe’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, entitled: The state of human rights in Europe: the need to eradicate impunity here.
In passing she says the following on the release of the torture memo’s:
I should like to commend the new US President for [...]

Scholarship: EU Law, International Law and Economic Sanctions Against Terrorism after Kadi

A new paper on Kadi was posted at SSRN:
EU Law, International Law and Economic Sanctions Against Terrorism: The Judiciary in Distress?
P. Takis TridimasQueen Mary University of London, School of Law
Jose A. Gutierrez-FonsQueen Mary University of London, School of Law
Fordham International Law Journal, ForthcomingQueen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11/2009
Abstract:     This article [...]

European Commission proposals in response to Kadi

The European Commission has presented its eagerly anticipated proposal to amend the EC Regulation No 881/2002 implementing the UN ‘terrorist list’ in response to the ECJ’s Kadi and Al-Barakaat ruling of September 2008. COM(2009) 187 final summarizes the new procedure to the Council as follows:
Upon notification by the UN Sanctions Committee of a new listing [...]

Kadi and Al Barakaat: Luxembourg is not Texas – or Washington DC

At EJIL Talk Professor Piet Eeckhout has an interesting post discussing the Kadi and Medellin decisions. Read it here.

Kadi files lawsuit against Bush

Kadi filed a lawsuit in Washington on Sunday claiming that he has been wrongfully accused by the Bush administration of financing terrorism, leading to the freezing of his assets.
“I want everyone to know that I have never ever supported terrorism. All the accusations against me were false and in violation of the constitutional provisions of [...]

Security Council hears briefing of 1267 committee – no progress on implementing Kadi

Security Council 6043rd Meeting (AM), 15 December 2008
JAN GRAULS (Belgium), speaking as Chair of the Al-Qaida and Taliban sanctions Committee said that resolution 1822 (2008) -– a milestone in the life of the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) on Al-Qaida and the Taliban — had introduced several important innovations with regard to the [...]

An interview with Kadi himself

Read it in the NY Times.
“We have not found Mr. Kadi guilty of anything,” said Adam J. Szubin,the director of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. “But we have found that he is a supporter of terror.”
Mr. Kadi is mindful that his position is different from those serving time at Guantánamo Bay, but insists [...]