By Kevin Meade
SUSPECTED terrorist Mohamed Haneef will be free within 24 hours as the Australian Federal Police have declined to seek an extension of this time in detention.
Haneef’s lawyer Peter Russo emerged from Brisbane Magistrates Court to say that the AFP had told him of their actions.
Dr Haneef, 27, who is yet to be charged with any offence, has been in custody since he was detained in Brisbane last Tuesday.
He has been detained under an extension of ”down time” under which he can be held but not questioned, and police are now allowed 12 hours of questioning before he must be released.
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But this could stretch out in practice, as the 12 hours does not need to be taken in the one block.
– The Australian (July 13, 2007
