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Terror blacklisting

Terror blacklisting, also called terror listing, is a centralized system through which persons who are accused, or suspected of terrorism, or who are being investigated for terrorism, are removed from the ability to work, transact business, and are generally excluded from all activities of public life, through financial means.

The most famous terror-blacklisting system is run under the UN Security Council Resolution 1267 list and EU lists. National lists are also maintained, the most famous of these being the United States lists maintained by the U.S. Treasury, inter alia the OFAC (Office for Financial Asset Control) and the SDN (list of Specially Designated Nationals) lists.

Criticism of terror listing

 * "Even the members of the committee which decides on blacklisting are not given all the reasons for blacklisting particular persons or groups. Usually, those persons or groups are not told that blacklisting has been requested, given a hearing or even, in some cases, informed of the decision – until they try to cross a frontier or use a bank account. There is no provision for independent review of these decisions".