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Mohamed Haneef (born 29 September 1979) is a 28-year old Indian physician who was accused of aiding terrorists, and left Australia upon cancellation of his visa amid great political controversy.
Haneef was arrested on July 2, 2007 at the Brisbane Airport, Brisbane, Australia on suspicion of terror-related activities. He is the second cousin of Kafeel Ahmed and Sabeel Ahmed the operatives in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack. Haneef's ensuing detention became the longest without charge in recent Australian history, which caused great controversy in Australia and India. Public outcry over the incident was further increased when the Australian Government denied Haneef the presumption of innocence, along with the Australian federal government's actions in his case.
Haneef was released when the Director of Public Prosecutions withdrew its charge on July 27, 2007, whereby his passport was returned and he departed Australia voluntarily on 29 July 2007. Final vindication for Haneef came when the cancellation of his visa was overturned by the Federal Court on 21 August 2007, with the decision being reiterated by the full bench of the court on 21 December 2007, resulting in Haneef having his Australian visa returned.
Life in India
Haneef is from Mudigere, in the coffee-rich Chikkamagaluru district of the state of Karnataka in India, where his late father, Shami Khaleel, was a teacher. Haneef's father died in a road accident when he was 18. Shortly after this Haneef moved (with his family) to Bangalore, and he completed his pre-university certification course at SDM College in Ujire in the neighbouring district of Dakshina Kannada. He subsequently studied medicine at the Dr.B R Ambedkar Medical College, an affiliated college of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences from 1997 to 2002, achieving a first-class degree.
Life in Australia
Haneef worked at Halton Hospital in Runcorn Cheshire, before applying for a job in Australia under that country's temporary skilled worker scheme, after reading an advertisement in the March 2006 issue of the British Medical Journal. In Australia, he worked as a registrar at the Gold Coast Hospital since September 2006, and lived in an apartment several blocks from the hospital.
Arrest
Haneef was arrested on July 2, 2007 at the Brisbane Airport, Brisbane, Australia for suspected terror-related activities, specifically in connection to 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack. He is the first person arrested and detained under the 2005 Australian Anti-Terrorism Act and the first to have his detention extended under the Act, being detained for twelve days without being charged with a crime.
Mick Keelty, the Australian Federal Police Commissioner, acknowledged that Haneef "may have done nothing wrong and may at the end of the day be free to go."
Investigation, allegations, and responses
The one-way ticket
At the time of his arrest, Haneef was attempting to make a one-way trip to India. This led authorities to believe Haneef's attempted exit from Australia on July 2 was directly linked to the arrest of his second cousin Kafeel Ahmed, who suffered 90% burns after the Glasgow airport attack on June 30. They discounted the possibility that Haneef was returning to see his six day-old daughter, who had neonatal jaundice, and wife who had given birth to her first child by emergency caesarean section.
Following his arrest, Haneef's family claimed that any link between him and the terrorists is only tenuous, and a case of guilt by association, that he was not involved in the plot, and that he was returning to India to see his wife and daughter. Haneef's father-in-law said the doctor wanted to take his wife and daughter back to Australia after getting the infant a passport, and so traveled without a return ticket.
The AFP claimed in a court affidavit that Haneef, "had no explanation as to why he did not have a return ticket" from India to Australia. While the police affidavit stated Haneef "had no explanation" about his one-way ticket, the record of interview shows that he gave a detailed explanation to police while answering questions. Haneef told police that as he did not have funds in his Australian bank account his father-in-law had booked and paid for the one-way ticket with an understanding that "when I go there we can arrange for the coming back ticket. Because I just got 7 days' leave approved".
The SIM card
Australian authorities alleged that as Haneef left Britain he recklessly provided assistance to a terrorist organization by leaving his relative, Sabeel Ahmed, a SIM card and the balance of a two year mobile phone contract to use and pay off when he left Britain in July 2006. Relatives have said that he left the SIM card behind to save money by not surrendering the remaining value of the contract to the telephone company. The prosecutor claimed the SIM card was found inside the vehicle used in the Glasgow Airport attack. This allegation, central to the case, has proved to be false and investigating British police officers have concluded that the case is being driven by politics rather than policing.. Mick Keelty revealed that Scotland Yard had initially told Australian Federal Police investigators that the SIM card was found in the jeep confirming that the conduit for the SIM card error was the Australian Federal Police, contrary to Mick Keelty's previous denials. A review by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Damian Bugg, revealed the allegations connected to the SIM card use as "error of fact"..
The shared flat
The AFP claimed in a court affidavit that Haneef told police in his first interview that he lived in Britain with the two terrorism suspects, his second cousins: "On 2 July and 3 July 2007 Dr Haneef participated in a taped record of interview with the AFP and stated the following: Whilst in the UK he resided with suspects 1 and 2 (alleged suicide bomber Kafeel Ahmed and his brother Sabeel Ahmed), at 13 Bentley Road, Liverpool."
In subsequent Immigration Department documents used to advise Australian Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews, senior public servant Peter White asserts: "Dr Haneef advised the AFP that he resided with Dr Sabeel Ahmed at a boarding house located at 13 Bentley Road, Liverpool, UK." This error was not corrected by the AFP, and revealed by Hedley Thomas on July 20 in The Australian..
However, in the record of the interview, Haneef told police that he lived at 13 Bentley Road, Liverpool, with several doctors, whom he names. None of those named are known to be suspects in the Glasgow or London incidents. Haneef told police that he had moved out of 13 Bentley Road by the time that Sabeel Ahmed moved there. He also told police that he visited Cambridge on two occasions in 2004 and stayed for up to six days with Kafeel Ahmed.
The diary
There has been confusion with the handling of evidence, with Australian police presenting their own notes to Haneef under the impression that they were diary entries written by Haneef. This led to inaccurate claims that the police had written in the diary itself but it has been confirmed that the police notes were not written in Haneef's diary.
Other allegations
Unsubstantiated media reports claim that Mohamed Haneef was in frequent and extensive contact with two men at the centre of Britain's car-bomb plot on the eve of their failed terror attacks. The online communication between Haneef and the bomb plotters was (supposedly) prolific and that authorities have (supposedly) gathered significantly more evidence against him than that has been disclosed publicly.
There are claims that 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. Haneef's colleagues at Gold Coast Hospital said Haneef "had made no mention of his planned personal trip to India, and had commented often about how well it worked to have his family living in India while he was working in Queensland"
Australian police alleged a link between Haneef and Bilal Abdullah, the owner and occupant of the Jeep used in the attack, by claiming Haneef admitted knowing a person named "Bilal" but refused to provide further information on him. In fact Haneef had actually stated he knew a "Bilab" and freely gave information about this person.
Australian intelligence authorities are reportedly probing a report in the Indian newspaper The Asian Age that alleged Haneef supposedly belonged to the now banned Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) when he was at medical school. Haneef's lawyer Peter Russo said he asked his client about the claim: "His response to it was it's simply not true", Mr Russo told ABC Radio.
Australia has reportedly sought details from India of personal information such as banking transactions related to Haneef. The request came after Indian authorities declined to comply with a request for "friendly sharing of information" made by a representative of the Australian Federal Police during a visit there last week.
On Sunday, 22nd July, some News Limited papers reported unsubstantiated claims from unnamed law enforcement sources that the AFP was investigating Haneef's alleged involvement in a plot to blow up a Gold Coast sky scraper. The reports also alleged that Haneef may have be
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