Council of Europe against anti-terror policy

The procedures that the EU and UN use to place suspected terrorists on a black list is "completely arbitrary", and are in contradiction to the democratic principles, according to the Council of Europe, the organization that overlooks human rights.

With the draft-report on blacklisting by the legal council of the parlementary assembly of the Council of Europe, the council hopes to change the methods that are currently used to counter terrorism threats.

'To be effective, the struggle against terrorism has to be believable', Dick Mary said. He is a Swiss senator in the parlementary Assembly and he wrote the report on blacklisting.

The report states that there are no procedures to check the choices that are being made about suspected persons. Some people can be added to the black list without proper suspicions and they are unable to defend themselves against it.

Suspects on the black list may face the closing of their bank accounts or restrictions on free travel.


- Peter Fijbes -