EU top court rejects argument that Tamil Tigers did not engage in ‘terrorist acts’ News
EU top court rejects argument that Tamil Tigers did not engage in ‘terrorist acts’

[JURIST] The European Court of Justice [official website] on Tuesday rejected [judgment] an argument by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam requesting that their activities be not classified as “terrorist acts.” The arguments were proffered as support for four individuals who had their assets frozen due to the accusation that they were financing acts of terror by financing the Tamil Tigers. The court ruled that the freezing of assets was acceptable holding that the acts of the Tamil Tigers were admissible as terrorist acts.

Terror Lists have come under fire in the last several years for violating the basic human rights of those affected by the blacklisting. Last year the ECJ Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston released two opinions arguing that Hamas and the Tamil Tigers should be removed [JURIST report] from the EU’s Terror List.

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On November 3, 1884, the US Supreme Court ruled in Elk v. Wilkins that John Elk, an American Indian who had tried to vote in a federal election in Omaha, Nebraska, was not a US citizen entitled to the protection of the 14th and 15th Amendments of the US Constitution. Native Americans became eligible for citizenship in 1887 under the Dawes Act, but only in 1924, under the Indian Citizenship Act, were all Native Americans born in the US made citizens.

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