“He wants all the matters raised with him by the Australian Federal Police and his answers to those questions put into the public arena, Russo said.
Haneef has done this because of the continuing attempts being made to slander his name by innuendo and selective release of information by government and Federal Police, said the lawyer in a media release.
The 378-page transcript has the detailed interrogation of Haneef by the sergeant in the presence of Russo.
The officer questioned Haneef about his place of birth, his childhood and his family background.
Regarding his second cousins Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmed, reportedly involved in the failed car bombing at the Glasgow airport terminal, Haneef said he was unaware of any detail of the events in London and Glasgow.
He came to know about the event only when he read news reports that kept popping up during the chat room conversation.
Not aware of Kafeel
He also told police that he wasn’t even aware that Kafeel had left Cambridge where, apparently, he had been living.
Dr Haneef’s attempts to correct the translation of the chat room conversation had been brushed aside by the police, with a promise that those corrections could be made at the end, the lawyer said.
Not all of those corrections seem to have been raised at the end, he added.
“The Australian Federal Police took so long to provide the transcript because the transcript of the second interview clearly shows what we have said all along — Dr Haneef was at all times trying to assist the police,” he said.
“Releasing the transcript of the second interview shows that he had nothing to hide,” Russo added. Russo said the transcription released was that provided, eventually, by the Federal police.
“Despite selective parts of the chat-room translation being used to attack my client’s reputation, the Federal Police did not think the second interview was important enough to transcribe for some weeks after the interview,” he added.
The release of the the second interview shows Dr Mohammed Haneef had nothing to hide, Russo claimed.