Tunisian says UN list deprives him of human rights

A TUNISIAN man living in Dublin yesterday took a case to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg claiming he was being deprived of his human rights after being put on a UN list of al-Qaida suspects.

The 42-year-old said his wife and six children have been reduced to subsistence living since the EU adopted the list of alleged Osama bin Laden associates.

Chafig Ayadi arrived in Ireland in 1997 having lived in a several countries and under a number of names.