Channel 10 TV: EU DIPLOMATS BRIEFED THAT ECHR RULING REMOVES HAMAS FROM LIST OF TERROR ORGANIZATIONS. DECISION TO BE PUBLISHED TOMORROW.
— Nadav Eyal (@NadavEyalDesk) December 16, 2014
I couldn't find any document listing terror groups on the webpage of the European Court of Human Rights. The only mention I saw of Hamas was peripheral to a discussion of hate speech.
However, 124News reports:
The European Court of Justice is due to debate whether placing Hamas placed on the list of terror organizations was done according to procedure or whether it should be voided.This makes more sense, the ECJ does have Hamas listed on a terror list from 2010.
Eyal clarified:
@ngomonitor It argued that legally the process was flawed since it was based on American fact sheet. The EU will receive time to re-present.
— Nadav Eyal (@NadavEyalDesk) December 16, 2014
Apparently, Hamas filed a motion to be removed from this list, and the ECJ agreed that the methodology it used to place it on the list was not as rigorous as they would prefer.If this is true, it is ironic that such a decision may be made the very week that the group publicly held a burning of a stereotypical Jew, and a model of the Jewish Temple, in effigy.
And Hamas also declared this weekend in no uncertain terms that they want to increase the amount of terror attacks against Israel.
So if the ECJ really decides that Hamas is not a terror group, they are about as useless a symbol of "human rights" as one can imagine.
(h/t Gidon Shaviv et. al.)
UPDATE: Here's the case:
Action brought on 12 September 2010 — Hamas v CouncilUPDATE 2: Hamas was removed from the blacklist, on a "technicality." They have three months to decide whether to reclassify Hamas as a terror organization.
(Case T-400/10)
(2010/C 317/60)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicant: Hamas (represented by: L. Glock, lawyer)
Defendants: Council of the European Union
Form of order sought
— Annul Council Act C 188/13 of 13 July 2010;
— annul Council Decision 2010/386/CFSP of 12 July 2010;
— annul Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 610/2010
of 12 July 2010;
— order the Council to pay all the costs and expenses.
Pleas in law and main arguments
The applicant seeks the annulment of Council Act 2010/C 188/09, (1) of Council Decision 2010/386/CFSP (2) and also Council Implementing Regulation No 610/2010, (3) in so far as the applicant’s name was retained on the list of persons,