Immigration blocks Haneef files
Michael McKenna; 9/5/08
The Immigration Department has blocked the release of documents relating to the Mohamed Haneef case as his second-cousin was yesterday deported from Britain for withholding information from police investigating last year’s failed bomb plots in London and Glasgow. A week after the opening of the Rudd government inquiry into the bungled case, Dr Haneef’s lawyers launched court action to overturn the Immigration Department’s decision to refuse the release of large numbers of documents under Freedom of Information because it may jeopardise future investigations and discourage bureaucrats from giving frank advice to ministers.