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How a Sri Lankan student's arrest on terror charges exposes a system built to suspect minorities

  • Written by Randa Abdel Fattah, DECRA Research Fellow, Macquarie University
Sensationalised anti-terror raids feed into the normalisation of Muslims and people of colour as 'suspect communities'.Sam Mooy/AAP

The war on terror has resulted in the gradual erosion of basic civil and human rights in the name of security. The latest casualty in Australia is Mohamed Kamer Nizamdeen, a 25-year-old PhD student, who was locked up...

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