Muhamed Haneef was born on 29 September 1979 and is an Indian-born doctor who was falsely accused of aiding terrorists, and left Australia upon cancellation of his visa amid great political controversy.
37 Facts About Muhamed Haneef
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Muhamed Haneef's visa was later reinstated and he was given some compensation.
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Muhamed Haneef is the second cousin once removed of Kafeel Ahmed and Sabeel Ahmed, the operatives in the 2007 Glasgow Airport attack.
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Muhamed Haneef's ensuing detention became the longest without charge in recent Australian history, which caused great controversy in Australia and India.
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Muhamed Haneef was released when the Director of Public Prosecutions withdrew its charge on 27 July 2007, whereby his passport was returned and he departed Australia voluntarily on 29 July 2007.
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In December 2010, Muhamed Haneef returned to Australia to seek damages for loss of income, interruption of his professional work, and emotional distress.
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Muhamed Haneef's father died in a road accident when he was 18.
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Shortly after this Muhamed Haneef moved with his family to Bangalore, and completed his pre-university certification course at SDM College in Ujire in the neighbouring district of Dakshina Kannada.
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Muhamed 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.
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Muhamed Haneef was arrested on 2 July 2007 at Brisbane Airport, Brisbane, Australia for suspected terror-related activities, specifically in connection to the attack at Glasgow Airport in the UK, a few days earlier.
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Muhamed Haneef was 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.
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At the time of his arrest, Muhamed Haneef was attempting to make a one-way trip to India.
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Muhamed 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 travelled without a return ticket.
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The AFP claimed in a court affidavit that Muhamed Haneef, "had no explanation as to why he did not have a return ticket" from India to Australia.
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Australian authorities alleged that as Muhamed Haneef left Britain he recklessly provided assistance to a terrorist organisation 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.
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However, in the record of the interview, Muhamed Haneef told police that he lived at 13 Bentley Road, Liverpool, with several doctors, whom he named.
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Muhamed Haneef told police that he had moved out of 13 Bentley Road by the time that Sabeel Ahmed moved there.
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Muhamed Haneef told police that he visited Cambridge on two occasions in 2004 and stayed for up to six days with Kafeel Ahmed.
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Unsubstantiated media reports claim that Muhamed 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.
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In fact Muhamed Haneef had actually stated he knew a "Bilab" and freely gave information about this person.
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Australian intelligence authorities were reportedly probing a report in the Indian newspaper The Asian Age that alleged Muhamed Haneef supposedly belonged to the now banned Student Islamic Movement of India when he was at medical school.
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Queensland Police and Corrective Services Minister Judy Spence said the conditions of his detention included no contact with other inmates, meaning Muhamed Haneef would be alone in a cell for all but one hour a day, when he would be allowed to exercise.
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Muhamed Haneef was ordered to be freed on a relatively modest, $10,000 surety on 16 July 2007, after the public prosecutor failed to convince the magistrate that the doctor should be remanded in custody.
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Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews announced that Muhamed Haneef's visa had been cancelled immediately on "character grounds" and, if released on bail, he would be taken into immigration detention.
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Mr Andrews said that the Australian Federal Police would issue a "criminal justice certificate", the effect of would be that Muhamed Haneef will remain in immigration detention while legal proceedings are afoot.
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The decision to revoke Muhamed Haneef's visa was given in principle support by the Shadow Minister of Immigration, Tony Burke.
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Muhamed Haneef said it was "curious" the minister had not decided to cancel the visa earlier, adding "There is room for the view that this was an act of circumventing the inconvenience of having him on bail".
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Australia's Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, claimed that to ensure a fair trial Muhamed Haneef might have been forced to spend more time in detention as a result of the leaked transcript, Muhamed Haneef's lawyers subsequently released the transcript from his second interview to the media.
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Meanwhile, in India, the Australian High Commissioner, John McCarthy was summoned to the Ministry of External Affairs, and told of India's concern over the way Muhamed Haneef was being treated.
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The Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Navtej Sarna said, "The ministry expressed its concern to the Australian government that Dr Mohammed Muhamed Haneef should be treated fairly and justly under Australian law".
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The Indian high commission in Canberra helped Muhamed Haneef's family arrange legal assistance.
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Muhamed Haneef's wife told him "India should put more pressure on Australia".
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Muhamed Haneef was reported in The Australian newspaper to have said:.
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The second error was their accusation that Muhamed Haneef had once lived with some of the UK bombing suspects, when in fact he had not.
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Muhamed Haneef was quoted, in a British media report, as stating that the remark "nothing has been found about you" was in relation to a BBC report about the Glasgow and London incidents.
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Muhamed Haneef's passport was returned to him, but his work visa was not returned.
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Muhamed Haneef has not returned to this job, choosing to pursue a career in Dubai.