Do not forget the context.

[catsidhe]

His ‘crime’, remember — the only thing they could hang on him after twelve hours of questioning and two weeks of turning his life over with a fine-tooth-comb — was that he gave a SIM card, worthless to him, to his cousin a year ago. And as Julian Burnside points out, there are several layers of the betrayal of the presumption of innocence. He is to be imprisoned under the severest of conditions for an otherwise innocent act in another country to a person whose own guilt has been presumed. (Remember, technically, he is not guilty until a judge has found him so.)



This is neither the action of a rational executive, nor a sign of a free country.

If you're not angry, you are part of the problem.

Comments

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

I'm going to surprise you.

If all the evidence they had on him was that he gave the card to his cousin, then you are correct and he is being unjustly held.

Note the "if," though.

[catsidhe.livejournal.com]

Not only that, but the cousin involved was not in London or in Glasgow. He has been accused of, basically, not informing the authorities if he thought his cousins might be terrorists.

Not only that, but the police have been caught writing names in Haneef's diary, then coming back later and grilling him about these incriminating names they had found written in his diary.

This whole disgusting mess has gone well beyond farce.

[last-servant.livejournal.com]

How the pressure from the Brits?