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Swiss court slaps new ban on Osama book

Swiss court slaps new ban on Osama book

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Publication: Sify News
Date: November 1, 2002
URL: http://news.sify.com/cgi-bin/sifynews/news/content/news_fullstory_v2.jsp?article_oid=12098828&category_oid=-20614&page_no=1

Switzerland's top court on Friday slapped a fresh ban on a controversial book by two French authors about Osama bin Laden, the Swiss ATS news agency said.

The Federal Court said the book Ben Laden: la verite interdite(Bin Laden: the Forbidden Truth) published in French and German should be kept off the bookstore shelves while judges review the facts of the case.

The book by French authors Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie alleges that the Saudi investment company SICO owned by one of bin Laden's half-brothers, Yeslam Binladin, helps finance the Saudi extremist's al-Qaeda network.

Yeslam Binladin, a businessman who has been resident in Geneva since 1985 and obtained Swiss citizenship, had petitioned the court to ban the book, arguing that its contents was libel.

He was contesting a decision by a lower Geneva court which eventually decided to authorise the publication and sale of the book.

Binladin has succeeded in obtaining a provisional injunction against the book in Geneva in January, which was then lifted in May after an appeal by the publishers.

Binladin's lawyer Pierre de Preux has argued that although the book can be bought in France or ordered over the internet, the request for its prohibition in Switzerland had a symbolic value.

Binladin claims not to have had any contact with his notorious half-brother - who is accused of masterminding the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington - since 1981, and denies any link to terrorist fundraising.
 


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