Should Dr Mohamed Haneef go back to Australia ??

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– What happened – series of events

Haneef was arrested on July 2, 2007 at the Brisbane Airport, Brisbane, Australia on suspicion of terror-related activities. He is the second cousin of Kafeel and sabeel, the operatives in the 2007 glasgow International Airport attack. Haneef's ensuing detention became the longest without charge in recent Australian history. Haneef was first one to have his detention extended under the act, being detailed for twelve days without being charged with a crime.

Australian authorities alleged that he left Britain providing assistance to a terrorist organization by leaving his SIM card and two year balance. Haneef was released on 27th July when public prosecution withdrew the charges whereby his passport was returned and he came back to India voluntarily.

On December 21, 2007 full bench of the court reiterated the federal court's 21 Aug decision to overturn the cancellation of his visa.

– Was it some kind of racism ??

If you look more deep in the series of events that had happened with Haneef, you will realize that can was created against him and he became the victim of internal racism. Otherwise why would immigration minister cancel his visa just after he was allowed to released on bail and threaten to take him under immigration detention if he is released on bail ??

Apart from that the reason on which was taken and kept in custody was not strong enough to qualify for a rare case. I mean, handling over the SIM card can be considered as a mistake and for maximum a unwilling violation but by no means it can be considered as a serious crime. That to notice that during the hearing, court agreed that his SIM card was found in a taxi and he didn't handed it over to anybody.

– Why did he applied for restore of his work visa ??

Simple reason, you have to fight against the injustice that happened to you. No matter that he is in india - he can live here - work here - he still need to fight for justice and let every one know that he is not guilty - Haven't done anything which can be considered as a crime or an act against a country or people. Court's order to restore his visa proves this fact.
But its just half the battle won.

– Should he go back to Australia to work again ??

Answer depends on a lot of factor and it depends on person to person. But if I would have been in his palce, I would have said no straight away. I mean, I have proved my point and got my visa restored. Now it has to be my choice whether I want to go there and use my visa and opt to stay out. It has to happen in my way. Probably something like :

“Now that every one of you know that I haven't done anything wrong against any community, society or country and I am not guilty, I would stay in my country among my people who supported my all along the way. I was not part of any of those non human activity and doesn't want to be a victim again because of any kind of racism, biasing, twisted laws or weakness in them. I would rather stay with my family and be loved for what I am than stay away from them and be hatred for what I was never be. Thanks you for all the lessons.”

"I would rather be a loin in my jungle than a monkey in an imported cage."