Legal chiefs hit out on terror case

[Swagman]

Source: The Age ( Melbourne)

Legal chiefs hit out on terror case
Nick McKenzie, Paul Austin and Leonie Wood
July 21, 2007

A GROWING chorus of prominent Australians in legal, political and religious circles has condemned the treatment of terror suspect Mohamed Haneef, calling on the Government to review its use of terror and immigration laws to detain him.
Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls told The Age yesterday it appeared the Federal Government had ignored vital legal principles in forcing Haneef's detention via immigration law.

Former Victorian Court of Appeal judge, Stephen Charles, QC, and former governor-general Bill Hayden also hit out at the treatment of Haneef, saying it showed blatant disregard for the role of the courts.

As criticism of the handling of Haneef's case intensified, sources last night confirmed that a crucial piece of evidence presented in a Brisbane court in the case against him was wrong.

They confirmed that Haneef's mobile phone SIM card was not found in a burning vehicle at Glasgow Airport, contrary to evidence cited by a Crown prosecutor last Saturday.

Instead, Haneef's SIM card was found at a house in Liverpool, hundreds of kilometres away, when his cousin Sabeel Ahmed was arrested eight hours after the Glasgow attack. Ahmed has been charged with withholding information about a terrorist act.

A source close to the British investigation into the attempted bombings said the Australian Federal Police were considered a laughing stock by Britain's Metropolitan Police, for allowing "such a major cock-up" to happen. "This is very embarrassing for them," he said.
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It appears Australia"s "FBI"-the Australian Federal Police have deliberately told several lies to a court in order to exagerate a case against an Indian doctor.
They could be in Contempt Of Court and may have committed a criminal act by doing so in their rush to implement harsh new "terrorism" laws.

PM John Howard has learnt well fom his Washington masters Bush and Cheney.

[Eugene]

1. K & R - also...

Transcript fuels row over doctor held in Australia on terror charge - The Guardian