Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3828-1005261241-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 08 Nov 2001 15:15:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11935 invoked by uid 510); 8 Nov 2001 23:12:59 -0000 Received: from n24.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.74) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 8 Nov 2001 23:12:59 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3828-1005261241-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by n24.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Nov 2001 23:13:59 -0000 X-Sender: yangyun@metacrawler.com X-Apparently-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 8 Nov 2001 23:14:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 58096 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2001 23:14:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m12.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 8 Nov 2001 23:14:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n23.groups.yahoo.com) (216.115.96.73) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Nov 2001 23:13:58 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: yangyun@metacrawler.com Received: from [10.1.2.52] by n23.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Nov 2001 23:13:55 -0000 To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <9sf3jg+14f8@eGroups.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.101.117.200 From: yangyun@metacrawler.com X-Yahoo-Profile: televr Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 23:13:51 -0000 Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] Al-Qadi requests UK judicial review Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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