Mohammed Haneef: Government bullies & media maladies
Indian Governments’ request to treat Haneef just and fairly went unheard(if at all that singnifies Indian influence on countries other than those in the subcontinet.) .
Dr.Mohammed Haneef was detained in Australia for his alleged involvement in failed glasgow bombings
Haneef was later released on a bail of $10,000, however Immigration Minister making a mockery of its own judiciary and putting the sanity of mankind to test, revoked the password of Doctor and termed his stay in Australi illegal as he has failed character test!
On the other hand the much famous news paper The Sun is calling “Suicide bombing attempts” as “Attempt to suicide”.Dave Bath reports here how Dr.Haneef is being humiliated and villified by the media.
amla from adelaide, 
As Australian Federal Police was not able to prove any involvment in the acts of terror , detained Dr. Haneef for more than 10 days .As Dr.Haneef was brought him to the court on charge of being “reckless” as his SIM was used by Kafeel Ahmed, the perpetrator of Glasgow bombings, could not provide any face saving grace.
Discussed in my previous post 
Dave Bath 1:48 pm on July 20, 2007 Permalink |
This post at the well-respected Larvatus Prodeo blog does a good job of gathering together bits and pieces of breaking news that the police affadavit presented to court and the record of the police interview the affadavit covers have some significant differences that will probably blow apart the prosecution case. The differences are not the kind that would be produced by innocent error of transcribers.
Will Kevin Andrews the Immigration minister, Philip Ruddock the Attorney General or senior federal police get anything more than egg on their face? They won’t even get their wrists slapped.
khadaksingh 10:24 pm on July 20, 2007 Permalink |
Dave, thanks for posting the link.
It does a good job of creating awareness!
Dave Bath 9:35 am on July 21, 2007 Permalink |
This is the link you should be pointing to as it has more photos and discussion – the link you give was to a “reminder” I put up because nobody seemed to have noticed the original.
Fortunately, a crosspost at DeadRoo got the noticed of one of the well-known “weekly summary of Oz blogs” – the “Missing Link” posts at Club Troppo. Your readers might also be interested in a “Dr Haneef” edition of the MissingLink here.
How upset is the blogoshere in the subcontinent? (I’m assuming you are in India)
You may also be interested in an Australian blog announced here (which also has an online petition), and I’d expect some activity soon on the new site here.
I don’t want to give people over there the impression that Australian’s dont care about how Haneef is being treated. Yes, there is a lot of concern about the attack on generic civil liberties, but many of us are also concerned about Dr Haneef in particular. But still, the bulk of the population is content to be misinformed and believes the government line.
amla from adelaide 7:03 pm on July 25, 2007 Permalink |
Hi dave, !
I was looking for more stuff on haneef since i am close to the epicentre so to speak and was a bit disappointed to see the note of “he must have done” “what made him act like that” etc. which seems to assign guilt to him without benefit of doubt on quite a few blogs. I am glad that at least SOMEONE is willing to be sane about it, and doubly glad that that someone is a fellow aussie!
I dont say he has done nothing, or otherwise for that matter, but it might be interesting for you to look at his initial interrogation by the Australian Federal Police here http://www.hindu.com/nic/0058/haneef.htm which IMO does not indicate any portrayal of “guilt”, and certainly not to the extent portrayed by the australian govt. and sensationalised by the media.
Also, the thing which is rarely mentioned in the media, is that the SIM card in question was given by him (this seems at this point to be the ONLY thing linking him to the alledged accused, apart from distant relationship) to sabeel more than a year ago, when he was leaving the UK.
Like I said, I would rather wait for further evidence before I make up my mind either way, but knwoing john howard, and the paranoia he loves to create as elections draw close, If i had to take a bet, I would probably say the only thing Haneef is guilty of is having the first name mohammed, being conveniently muslim, and trying to leave australia on a one way ticket instead of a return ticket ( and I can understand his situation since I have myself asked on at least 2 depressingly desperate occasions if my parents could send me a one way ticket as i was broke, out of a job and home sick).
Fortunately for me, those offers were never actually actioned, and so here I am – possibly better off, but who knows??!!