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The colleague, the girl, the police: Student framed and imprisoned over terror offences tells whole story for the first time: By Avani Dias Mohamed Nizamdeen was charged with terrorism offences Source:-ABC (Triple J Hack) Mohamed Kamer Nizamdeen was held in solitary confinement for a month on terror offences, only to be released after police admitted they’d arrested the wrong person. It emerged the 25-year-old Muslim man’s colleague had framed Kamer because he was jealous of his friendship with a young woman. In his first in-depth interview since he was arrested, Kamer has told Hack what it was like the day his life suddenly changed. He went from holding down an ordinary office job to being a suspect in a police terror investigation, without access to a lawyer for five days. He went from a sharehouse to sitting in a cell next door to hardened criminals. Having returned to Sri Lanka, ...