07-16-2007, 04:57 PM
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CNN-IBN
New Delhi: <b>A Brisbane court has granted bail to Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, charged in connection with last month's failed car bomb attacks in Britain.
However, hours later the government invoked immigration laws to keep him behind bars.</b>
Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews told reporters in Canberra that he had cancelled Mohamed Haneef's working visa on suspicion he had links to terrorists.
Haneef would be taken into immigration custody soon, Andrews said.
Haneef's bail application had been rejected on Saturday by a Brisbane court, only to be reconvened on Monday morning 1030 hrs local time.
Haneef was charged with recklessly providing resources - amounting to a mobile phone SIM card - and supporting terrorism. However, the magistrate felt that the charges were not very serious and granted him bail, saying it was an exceptional circumstance.
Haneef cannot leave Australia till the next hearing, which is on August 31. He has to provide the authorities there with a residential address to the Commonwealth in the next 24 hours and has to report to a Gold Coast police station every Monday, Wednesday and Friday till his hearing.
He also has to provide a surety of $10,000 (Australian dollars) and cannot apply for a passport till a final verdict is pronounced.
The Australian Attorney General has said that Mohammed Haneef will not be extradited, but will instead be tried in Australia while proceedings against him continue in the UK.
Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN Haneef's wife Firdaus said, "I am thankful to the people in India who prayed for my husband and for the people in Australia who supported him. I also want to thank the Prime Minister of India, without whose intervention, this would not have been possible."
On Saturday, the Australian police charged Haneef with giving support to a terrorist organisation. He was booked under the Terrorist Act for providing a SIM card to terrorists.
Haneef, who is cousin of UK terror suspect Kafeel Ahmed, was in detention for 12 days. Haneef is a second cousin to Kafeel Ahmed, a suspect who is in a critical condition with burns from the Glasgow attack, and last contacted him via the Internet in March/April 2007.
Haneef had been arrested in the wake of the discovery of two car bombs in London's bustling theatre and nightclub district on June 29. The following day a jeep crashed into the terminal building at Glasgow Airport and burst into flames.
All six suspects in Britain are medicos from West Asia or India. One, Iraqi-trained doctor Bilal Abdulla, 27, was charged last week with conspiring to cause explosions.
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CNN-IBN
New Delhi: <b>A Brisbane court has granted bail to Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, charged in connection with last month's failed car bomb attacks in Britain.
However, hours later the government invoked immigration laws to keep him behind bars.</b>
Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews told reporters in Canberra that he had cancelled Mohamed Haneef's working visa on suspicion he had links to terrorists.
Haneef would be taken into immigration custody soon, Andrews said.
Haneef's bail application had been rejected on Saturday by a Brisbane court, only to be reconvened on Monday morning 1030 hrs local time.
Haneef was charged with recklessly providing resources - amounting to a mobile phone SIM card - and supporting terrorism. However, the magistrate felt that the charges were not very serious and granted him bail, saying it was an exceptional circumstance.
Haneef cannot leave Australia till the next hearing, which is on August 31. He has to provide the authorities there with a residential address to the Commonwealth in the next 24 hours and has to report to a Gold Coast police station every Monday, Wednesday and Friday till his hearing.
He also has to provide a surety of $10,000 (Australian dollars) and cannot apply for a passport till a final verdict is pronounced.
The Australian Attorney General has said that Mohammed Haneef will not be extradited, but will instead be tried in Australia while proceedings against him continue in the UK.
Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN Haneef's wife Firdaus said, "I am thankful to the people in India who prayed for my husband and for the people in Australia who supported him. I also want to thank the Prime Minister of India, without whose intervention, this would not have been possible."
On Saturday, the Australian police charged Haneef with giving support to a terrorist organisation. He was booked under the Terrorist Act for providing a SIM card to terrorists.
Haneef, who is cousin of UK terror suspect Kafeel Ahmed, was in detention for 12 days. Haneef is a second cousin to Kafeel Ahmed, a suspect who is in a critical condition with burns from the Glasgow attack, and last contacted him via the Internet in March/April 2007.
Haneef had been arrested in the wake of the discovery of two car bombs in London's bustling theatre and nightclub district on June 29. The following day a jeep crashed into the terminal building at Glasgow Airport and burst into flames.
All six suspects in Britain are medicos from West Asia or India. One, Iraqi-trained doctor Bilal Abdulla, 27, was charged last week with conspiring to cause explosions.
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