This court artist sketch shows Mohammed Haneef, who was granted bail by the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday in Brisbane, Australia.
The Australian police orchestrated to have Mohamed Haneef, wrongly accused of involvement in the failed UK car bombings, indefinitely detained in the country despite their own intelligence revealing the case was weak. Documents released under freedom-of-information laws have revealed that at the time Mohamed Haneef was charged with a terrorism-related offence, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions was aware that the case against him was weak, a report said.
According to Queensland-based Indian diplomat Sarva-Daman Singh no further information about Haneef was received from Australian government.
According to the ABC radio report, Thomas criticised the Australian Federal Police for pursuing the lawyers who leaked the information that allowed him to write his award-winning articles. In his acceptance speech, Thomas thanked Haneef's lawyers Peter Russo and Stephen Keim for risking their careers to expose vital facts about the case.
The 27-year-old, hailing from Bangalore, must provide a surety of 10,000 Australian dollars and report to the Southport police station three times a week.
Russo says his client is holding up well in the circumstances. "He's obviously made a request to me that he'd prefer to be in the community and rather than where he is," he said.
Admitting their mistake, Australian government on Thursday formally apologised to Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef and said sorry for wrongly detaining him on terror charges.
Mohammed Haneef, a doctor of Indian origin based in Australia, who was wrongfully accused of terrorism, has struck a 'substantial' compensation deal with the Australian government, reports claimed on Tuesday.
Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, who was wrongly accused of involvement in a botched 2007 United Kingdom terror attack, on Thursday sued the Australian government for unlawful arrest and abuse of power and launched defamation proceedings against former immigration minister Kevin Andrews.
Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, wrongly accused of terror links in Australia, is returning to the country next month for compensation talks, local media said on Monday.
Australian authorities have refused to release the documents related to the bungled case of Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef who was wrongly accused of having terror links in 2007 failed Glasgow airport attack. The Immigration Department, which blocked the release of large numbers of documents relating to Haneef's case under Freedom of Information, rejected any possibility of releasing them, The Australian said on Friday.
Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, who was wrongly detained in Australia for alleged terror links, has cancelled his temporary Australian visa. Haneef is believed to have cancelled the temporary business visa on August 17 to unlock the superannuation contributions made before he was wrongly accused of supporting terrorism.
Andrews will tell the Rudd government-ordered inquiry into the bungled case, which opens on Wednesday, that the Australian Federal Police did not inform him of evidence debunking allegations against Dr Haneef's second-cousin Sabeel Ahmed - allegations that had led to the subsequent terrorism charge against the Gold Coast doctor. The inquiry, headed by former Supreme Court judge John Clarke, will probe if the AFP ignored the vital information.
The AFP was under pressure to make public some of its submissions to the inquiry since the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation had allowed the public release of an abridged version of its submission in July.
The full bench of the Australian Federal Court on Thursday will hear a government appeal against a judge's decision to reinstate the visa of Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, who was cleared of terrorism charges after being arrested in connection with the foiled United Kingdom bombings. Prosecution lawyers lodged the appeal in September after Federal Court Justice Jeffery Spender quashed Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews' decision to cancel Haneef's visa.
In a deft move, the lawyers of Mohammed Haneef, the Indian doctor who was accused of backing a terror outfit, have compared the medico's case to the sensational 'Children Overboad Affair'* that rocked Australia some years ago.
"The minister's decision will mystify the great majority of Australian people," he said, adding, "It will make overseas people very suspicious about living and working in Australia and this negative perception will take decades to erase."
Former Australian immigration minister Kevin Andrews did not notify the police and other senior officials before revoking Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef's visa, a move that 'spoiled' the investigations. Andrews' decision to revoke Haneef's visa caught the police and senior immigration officials completely by surprise. "If Haneef had been freed on bail, the police would have kept him under surveillance and gathered any evidence that might be out there," a source said.
Haneef is charged with "recklessly" supporting a terrorist organisation with the Australian Federal Police alleging he supported foiled plans to detonate truck bombs in Britain.
Computer records obtained by authorities reveal Haneef's close links to both Kafeel and his brother Sabeel continued right up until the failed bombings in Glasgow and in London's West End on June 29, a media report said.
Asking the details of the probe, Greens Senator Kerry Nettle, in a pointed question, to AFP wondered whether the police was on a 'witch-hunt' to justify its handling of the Haneef case and said the Bangalore doctor should be left alone.
In an interview to The Australian published on Monday, Haneef said the inquiry should be given powers to ensure all documents are released, and witnesses, including Australian Federal Police Chief Mick Keelty and former immigration minister Kevin Andrews -- as well as investigators, prosecutors and bureaucrats -- are compelled to give evidence and face cross-examination.
The Australian police spent a whopping $ 7.5 million probing Mohammed Haneef, who was wrongly accused of terror charges, the country's police chief said on Monday while claiming that the Indian doctor did not have a case for compensation.
Stephen Keim, who successfully defended Haneef last year after he was wrongly accused of terror charges by Australian authorities in connection with the failed UK car-bomb plot, was cleared of any disciplinary action by Queensland's Legal Services Commission.
The Australian police have said that Mohamed Haneef, who was wrongly accused of links to the failed UK terror plot, continued to remain under investigation despite the government ruling out an appeal against a court decision to reinstate his visa.
Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, who was wrongly accused in Australia of involvement in the failed UK car bombings, will seek compensation for the "immense damage" to his career, reputation and family. As the Australian police dropped its 13-month probe into the bungled case on Frday, Haneef said the investigation had left his entire family "in darkness" and his reputation destroyed.
Prosecutors in the Mohamed Haneef probe were under 'extreme pressure' from the Australian Federal Police to charge the Indian doctor and had no access to vital evidence to judge the strength of the case against him, a public inquiry commission has been told.In a submission to the John Clarke inquiry into the bungled case of the 28-year-old medic accused of terrorism, Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions has disclosed how its officers were not supplied with evidence.
His lawyers argued in court that the immigration department's unwillingness to hand over the sensitive documents seemed like a cover-up.
Australian federal police chief Mick Keelty has said that he had personally warned prosecutors that there was insufficient evidence against Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, who was cleared of terror charges after his arrest over the failed car bombings in the United Kingdom. Haneef, who went back to India following his release, had spent four weeks behind bars in July after being charged with recklessly providing support to a terrorist organisation.
Last month, Judge Jeffrey Spender overturned Andrews' decision to cancel the Indian doctor's work visa on character grounds citing "jurisdictional error" on the part of the minister
The AFP has provided Haneef's lawyers with the transcript of the 12 hours they interrogated the Indian doctor before charging him on July 14 with providing resources to a terrorist organisation.
Lawyers for Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, wrongly accused of involvement in the failed Glasgow car bombings, won a bid to fast-track a court challenge to secure confidential official documents relating to his case, on Wednesday.
However, it's understood the intelligence does not contain information about a terrorist attack in Australia and only believes Haneef to be on the outer edge of a large group of like-minded people.
Haneef has said he wanted to tell the police that he had left a SIM card with a cousin who was implicated in the attacks.
"(Andrews) has led the Australian public to believe that this is the secret information, it is hardly secret information if it was put to my client in the second record of interview," Russo told another media channel.
The case for restoration of Haneef's work visa will be heard in the federal court which may give some indication of the strength of the alleged national security evidence.
The Courier-Mail newspaper reported Ali had been suspended after it was discovered his resume included up to 12 months of hospital work in India that he never performed.
The Australian Federal Police on Friday dropped charges against Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
Haneef is charged with recklessly supporting a terrorist organisation and Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions Damian Bugg is personally reviewing the case.
The DPP review follows concerns about inconsistencies in the case against Haneef.
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