Mark Latham defends defamation claim by student wrongly accused of terror plot

One Nation politician argues now-deleted tweets about Mohamed Nizamdeen were his ‘honest opinion’

Mark Latham will defend a defamation claim by arguing his wrong assumption that a Sydney university student had plotted to kill senior federal MPs and blow up the Sydney Opera House was his “honest opinion” and caused little harm.

Mohamed Kamer Nilar Nizamdeen is suing the One Nation politician over two since-deleted tweets posted after the University of New South Wales PhD student was charged with a terror-related offence.

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