The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : ‘Haneef’s confinement a violation of rights’

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‘Haneef’s confinement a violation of rights’

Staff Reporter`

BANGALORE: The South India Cell for Human Rights Education and Monitoring has termed the solitary confinement of Mohammed Haneef, suspect in the Glasgow terror attack, as “violation of basic and universal human rights.”

The confinement was nothing short of a means of torture, it said.

In a letter to Australian High Commissioner Mathews Philip, the executive director of the cell said that the chain of developments in the case starting from Haneef’s arrest on July 2 until the despatch of Letters Rogatory for ascertaining Haneef’s antecedents, raised doubts as to whether there would be a fair trial.

Mr. Philip said that prima facie it appeared that Haneef’s detention as a terror suspect might not stand the test of law or logic. Newspapers in Australia and other countries had reported that there was paucity of incriminating evidence to charge Haneef, he said.

Mr. Philip has asked for a fair and transparent investigation based on tenable legal grounds.

He has asked the High Commissioner to take steps for the immediate release of Haneef and restoration of his work permit.

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