EU Court Removes Gadhafi's Daughter From Sanctions List
The EU General Court vacated 2017 and 2020 acts from the European Council designating Aisha Gadhafi, the daughter of former Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi, for its sanctions regime, in an April 21 decision. Finding that the EU did not provide…
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individual, specific and concrete reasons as to why she remained on the sanctions list, the court removed her name. The European Council relied on public statements from Gadhafi in 2011 and 2013 calling for the overthrow of the Libyan authorities, but the court found these statements unconvincing. Seeing as her circumstances have changed, the EC needed to show why the sentiments held in the statements still hold today, the court said.