Hadeeds appeal refusal of release from detention

Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve have ap­pealed High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad’s re­fusal to or­der their re­lease from de­ten­tion over an al­leged plot to kill key Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

In an ap­peal filed ear­li­er to­day, lawyers rep­re­sent­ing the cou­ple, led by Se­nior Coun­sel Dou­glas Mendes, raised more than a dozen grounds of ap­peal, claim­ing Jus­tice Seep­er­sad made sev­er­al er­rors in re­fus­ing their re­lease from Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) last week.

They claimed Jus­tice Seep­er­sad was wrong to rule that they could be com­pen­sat­ed by the State if they even­tu­al­ly suc­ceed in their sub­stan­tive law­suit, in which they al­lege they were tar­get­ed by the Gov­ern­ment based on their eth­nic­i­ty and an on­go­ing le­gal dis­pute over the ter­mi­na­tion of leas­es for State land.