25/04/2016 (Agence Europe) - EU removes International Sikh Youth Federation from its list of terrorist organisations. On 22 April, the European Union removed the International Sikh Youth Federation from its list of terrorist organisations because, according to the decision published in the Official Journal, “the Council has established that the no longer any reason to keep it on the list”, without explaining further. The International Sikh Youth Federation is an armed Sikh pro-independence organisation created in Birmingham in 1984. The European list now has 22 entities on it, including Hezbollah, Hamas and the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), and 10 individuals. Their funds and financial assets are frozen and they are subject to police and legal cooperation. The EU's terrorism list is independent from the EU's provisions to implement the resolution of the United Nations Security Council concerning the freezing of assets of persons and entities with a connection to Osama bin Laden, the Al Qaeda network and the Taliban (including Daesh). (CG)