Lawyers for Sri Lankan national Mohamed Nizamdeen confirm they are planning to sue two Australian media outletsUniversity of NSW student wrongly accused of terrorism offences plans to sue police and mediaA Sri Lankan national charged with terrorism offences that were later dropped plans to sue several Australian media outlets for defamation over their coverage of his case. Mohamed Kamer Nilar Nizamdeen, 25, was arrested in August and wrongly charged with creating a document in connection with preparing for a terrorist act. Sydney’s Daily Telegraph was among the media outlets that covered the case, producing a front page the day after Nizamdeen’s arrest showing him wearing a keffiyeh headdress with the headline: “Poster boy for terror”. Lawyers for Nizamdeen, who has since returned to Sri Lanka, said they were preparing to file legal action against the media outlets and police. “Definitely we are looking at [suing] two media outlets for defamation, plus a civil suit against the state police,” said Farman Cassim, who is Nizamdeen’s uncle and lawyer, in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.

Source: The Guardian November 23, 2018 07:18 UTC