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European Union – Regulation. The General Court of the European Union allowed the application by Abdulbasit Abdulrahim (Abdulrahim), residing in London for annulment of certain decisions taken by the European Commission which had included and maintained Abdulrahim on a list of persons and entities whose funds and other economic resources were to be frozen due to their association with Usama bin Laden, the Al-Qaida network and the Taliban. The General Court decided that none of the allegations made against the applicant was such as to justify the adoption, at EU level, of restrictive measures against him.
European Union – Regulation. The General Court of the European Union allowed the application by Abdulbasit Abdulrahim (Abdulrahim), residing in London for annulment of certain decisions taken by the European Commission which had included and maintained Abdulrahim on a list of persons and entities whose funds and other economic resources were to be frozen due to their association with Usama bin Laden, the Al-Qaida network and the Taliban. The General Court decided that none of the allegations made against the applicant was such as to justify the adoption, at EU level, of restrictive measures against him.
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