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The solicitor for Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef says the Australian Federal Government is being vindictive after it announced he would be transferred to Sydney's Villawood detention centre.
The Gold Coast-based doctor was arrested more than a fortnight ago as part of investigations into the failed UK bomb plot.
Haneef was charged last Saturday with providing resources to a terrorist organisation.
Yesterday, Haneef was granted conditional bail by a Brisbane magistrate.
But just hours later, the Government cancelled Haneef's visa and announced he would be transferred to the detention centre in Sydney.
Lawyers were to meet this morning (Australia time) to plan the next step in their legal bid to secure Haneef's release from custody.
His solicitor, Peter Russo, says he is worried Haneef will be moved as far from his lawyers as possible.
Mr Russo says an appeal will be lodged but until then, he will try to keep him in Queensland even if it means a further stint in the Brisbane watch-house.
"Until the immigration issue is sorted out and the bail issue is sorted out, we're sort of just jammed in relation to where we go to next," he said.
"It's quite complicated - there's a couple of aspects to it and we haven't made up our minds which way we're going to do it."
Mr Russo will meet with Haneef's barrister Stephen Keim in Brisbane today to work out the grounds for their appeal.
Meanwhile, an organisation representing doctors trained overseas says it will be harder to attract doctors to Australia because of Haneef's case.
Four doctors in Perth also had their home searched twice by Australian Federal Police, but were yesterday cleared of any association with illegal activity.
President of the Australian Doctors Trained Overseas Association, Andrew Schwartz, says the public nature of the investigations could now make it harder for Australia to recruit overseas doctors.
"Like it or not, for at least the next 15 years Australia will be heavily dependent upon overseas trained doctors to prevent the collapse of health services," he said.
"I really believe it will make the possibility of recruiting to people here just that much harder.
"I'd like to understand why all the publicity and why every doctor, every overseas trained doctor - whoever happened to have spoken to somebody - is now interviewed and everything is leaked to the media by the Federal Police.
"Is this a public relations exercise?"
- RADIO AUSTRALIA
