EU Court rejects move to lift ban on LTTE View(s):The European Union’s General Court this week rejected an appeal to lift the proscription of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as an international terrorist organisation within Europe. They had applied to annul the relisting of the LTTE as a terrorist organisation by the European Council in January 2019, ten years after the military defeat of the LTTE. The European Council had held that in 2019 that the LTTE’s “international fundraising and revival capacities remained” despite its military defeat ten years earlier. The LTTE was first listed as a terrorist organisation by the EU in 2006. The Court rejected multiple pleas lodged by the LTTE branch in Denmark before dismissing the action in full.

Source: Sunday Times November 28, 2021 12:38 UTC