“In the court’s view, the accused abroad had reasons other than a desire to evade prosecution. He has been imprisoned for about eighteen months. Further reference to the aforementioned correspondence stating that the accused – before he was arrested by Pakistani authorities – agreed to return to Norway and lay interrogate. Furthermore, reference to the fact that the accused came back to Norway a few weeks after flight ban against him have been revoked, “says the ruling came Thursday night.”
Bhatti lawyer John Christian Elden got thus upheld the city court in that it is not necessary to remand, in that Bhatti has traveled home to Norway knowing indictment. He also pointed out that Bhatti had been willing to ask for questioning in 2012, but the police refused the offer.
– It is understandable that the court could not follow police argument escape danger when he goes to Norway says Bhatti lawyer, John Christian Elden, to Aftenposten.no.
Bhatti returned to Norway on Wednesday after having been two years in Pakistan. Most of the time he has been in Pakistani custody. He was then denied by the Pakistani authorities to leave the country by plane.
Evening Prayer in the courthouse
Under the current fenglingsmøte Prophet’s Ummah frontman Ubaydullah Hussain one of the three friends to Bhatti who sat on belongs place during the remand hearing in Oslo District Court on Thursday afternoon.
The ruling on the question of custody of Bhatti, comes Thursday night. After the hearing was closed at 16 o’clock, was Hussain and the other two friends held back by police and taken into another courtroom.
According to Aftenposten, it was suspected that it had been taken recording or photo from the court. Aftenposten video you see quarreling with police. The three were released after a short time, but preparing for and conducted, evening prayer in the Oslo District Court.
– You have well a reason to arrest me, exclaimed Hussain during the argument and wanted his lawyer to present.
Afterwards he stated to VGTV that the basis for the petition for custody of Bhatti contrary to Norwegian law.
More Bhatti friends met up
When the remand hearing began Thursday afternoon, got Arfan Bhatti support of several of his old friends.
Ubaydullah Hussain and the other from the Islamist organization Profetens Ummah was inducted through security and into the courtroom before the remand hearing started.
Before Bhatti himself was led into the hall, the press had already been told that he would not accept shooting him. It is not allowed to photograph the accused in, on the way to or from the courtroom, unless the accused himself gives permission.
High security
No conceded in Courtroom 207 without being controlled. Police Attorney Trine Dyngeland was followed by two officers with bulletproof vest.
The hall was completely filled up by the press and audiences. It took several minutes before Bahtti was led into the courtroom, the clock 15.15, he came in.
He had red hat, turquoise hoodie and black jacket. His beard was cut much shorter than it has been in recent photos.
Bhatti showed clearly that he did not like that there were photographers present, before he smiled afterwards to his friends and sat down.
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– Bhatti could radicalize the environment in Norway further
The charges
Bhatti is charged with several violent incidents where his son, his daughter and his former wife should have gotten through.
Bhatti was arrested in April 2012, but was released the next day with visitation. In mid-May, he was arrested again for other conditions and finally released from custody in June the same year.
Arrested immediately
26. December 2014, he got removed from the no-fly list and he could again return to Norway. Bhatti arrived Gardermoen Wednesday with one-way ticket and was arrested by Norwegian police as he set his legs on Norwegian soil.
Bhatti believes police procedural reprehensible. He believes that he should have been informed that he was wanted when he was in contact with the Norwegian Embassy in December, and that it should have been indicted.
Etterlyst since 2013
Bhatti has been abroad for more than two years after he left Norway. Shortly thereafter, he was reported missing. Half a year later became Norwegian authorities aware that Bhatti was imprisoned in Pakistan because he should have been in contact with the Taliban.
Bhatti was released in August last year and is now a free man. Police requesting custody for four weeks because they believe there is a danger that Bhatti will abscond from the indictment.
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