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A Sri Lankan student who was detained in an Australian "supermax" prison on terrorism charges that were "investigated against him".
Mohamed Kamer Nilar Nizamdeen, 25, was arrested in August and charged with creating a document in connection with a terrorist act.
University of New South Wales (UNSW) University of New South Wales (UNSW) PhD student has laid out a graphic "Isis-Affiliated".
In September, police suddenly announced that they were in danger of being caught up in the news after two experts wrote that it was unclear if he had authored the text in the notebook.
Nizamdeen, who has come back to Sri Lanka, told a press conference in Colombo this week he had been detained in a secure place.
"It took six days for my lawyers to contact me," he said, reading from a prepared statement. "I had no contact with the outside world for six days, which is a violation of basic human and fundamental rights."
It was another month for him, he said.
"The method in which the AFP themselves was completely immature, unprofessional, irresponsible, embarrbading and biased to say the least."
One newspaper front page after Nizamdeen's arrest of the head of the headline, "Poster boy for terror".
"Nowhere in the world would you have had the media circus which immediately followed my wrongful arrest," Nizamdeen said on Thursday.
"I strongly believe this happened because I am Asian on a student visa [police] had the wrong impression that I did not have the resources to defend or declare my innocence. "
Nizamdeen's uncle is a Sri Lankan cabinet minister and his arrest sparked protests in the country.
"The whole saga has come back to Sri Lanka to carry on my life," he said.
"The ordeal has left me shattered and all I can think of is to raise my voice and stand in support of other victims of injustice who stand wrongly accused by any system."
Police declined to apologize to Nizamdeen after the charges were dropped, saying the investigation is ongoing and "we can never be complacent because of the threat of terrorism in Australia and NSW is very, very real".
They said that the research is now focusing on the possibility of having people in the world.
Relatives of Nizamdeen had claimed a colleague with a vendetta against him.
Nizamdeen plans to sue for compensation.
Columnists in Sri Lanka have compared the episode to the wrongful arrest of Muhamed Haneef, an Indian-born doctor who was charged with terrorism offenses in July 2007, and had his visa canceled, and then was later cleared.
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