[iwar] Al-Qadi requests UK judicial review

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Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 23:13:51 -0000
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Subject: [iwar] Al-Qadi requests UK judicial review
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Al-Qadi issues proceedings against HM Treasury
By John R. Bradley, ArabNews.com


JEDDAH, 9 November — When HM Treasury in Britain announced last month
that prominent Saudi Arabian businessman Yassin Al-Qadi was being
included in its "steps to freeze terrorist assets", Al-Qadi's
solicitors, Peter Carter Ruck & Partners, stated that the "allegation
that he supports or is in any way connected with terrorism" was
totally without justification.

Al-Qadi's solicitors yesterday issued proceedings requesting
permission for Judicial Review against HM Treasury in the High Court
in London. They are challenging the decision of HM Treasury
communicated by a press release dated Oct. 12 to instruct all
financial institutions to freeze Al-Qadi's assets. 

In the Judicial Review proceedings, Al-Qadi will, if granted
permission, be seeking from the High Court a declaration that HM
Treasury's decision was unlawful, and an order quashing it.

"The allegation that Al-Qadi funds and/or supports Osama Bin Laden, or
any terrorist organization, are of the utmost gravity and seriousness
and it is difficult to conceive of a more defamatory allegation to
make," Al-Qadi's solicitors had stated when news that his assets were
being frozen broke last month. They now claim Al-Qadi has "suffered
most serious personal and professional prejudice and damage" since then.

Yesterday, Al-Qadi stated that he remains "horrified and shocked at HM
Treasury's action against me and the arbitrary manner in which it was
carried out. Therefore, today I am seeking redress through the High
Court in London."

Exactly why HM Treasury has made no effort to contact Al-Qadi is at
best confusing and at worst scandalous. It would have been a simple
matter for the department to contact him for his response before
publishing the potentially devastating allegations. Indeed, through
his solicitors Al-Qadi had formally asked HM Treasury on Oct. 15 for
the information and evidence on the basis of which he was put on the
list. However, no evidence was supplied.

Al-Qadi's solicitors claim that the effect of HM Treasury's
instructions to financial institutions means it breached the Human
Rights Act 1988 and Article 1, Protocol 1, and Article 8 of the
European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms.

Al-Qadi has publicly condemned terrorism.

"Our religion, Islam, does not accept the killing of innocent people,
whatever their nationality or religion," he said last month in an
exclusive interview with the Arab News sister publication Asharq Al-Awsat.

The US Treasury Department has also put Al-Qadi's name on its list of
blacklisted individuals and organizations that allegedly fund
terrorism for running a charity named Muwafaq Charitable Foundation,
which it claimed funneled millions of dollars to Bin Laden, the prime
suspect in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Al-Qadi is said to be infuriated at the lack of respect from both the
FBI in the US or HM Treasury in Britain in their refusal to let him
speak in his own defense.

"He is more than willing to make himself and his business records
available to the appropriate authorities toward having his name
removed from the list and clearing his name," his solicitors stated.





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