UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council committee monitoring sanctions against al-Qaida removed a London-based Saudi dissident from its blacklist Monday.

The committee chairman, Germany’s U.N. Ambassador Peter Wittig, said it de-listed Saad Rashed Mohammed Al-Faqih and the Movement for Reform in Arabia, which he leads. Al-Faqih was removed after the committee failed to override a decision by the blacklist’s ombudsman to remove him.