カテゴリー: Manus Island
Australian PM to call for ‘a swift conclusion to negotiations’ to treaty and say both countries should ‘work as equals with our fellow Pacific states’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese will seek pr…
Opposition immigration spokesman in New Zealand claims Kurdish refugee was let into the country only because he had ‘political friends’ in government Jacinda Ardern has denounced as “offensive” a suggestion that Behrouz Boochani benefited from a politi…
Kurdish Iranian writer says the film will bring more attention to Australia’s brutal immigration detention regimeBehrouz Boochani’s award-winning debut book, No Friend But The Mountains, will be made into a feature film with production to begin in Aust…
Exclusive: Conditions inside Australia-funded Bomana centre prompted dozens to agree to return to country of originLeaked pictures from inside Papua New Guinea’s Bomana immigration detention centre have given a glimpse of where up to 20 asylum seekers …
The moral case for the former Manus island detainee becoming a citizen is as simple as ‘asylum is a human right’I wonder if it winds up Peter Dutton to know that Behrouz Boochani, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist, award-winning author and former Manus Is…
New Zealand PM says she’s disappointed her immigration minister was aware of the arrival but had not passed information onJacinda Ardern said she did not know that former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani was coming to New Zealand before his arriv…
New Zealand PM says she’s disappointed her immigration minister was aware of the arrival but had not passed information onJacinda Ardern said she did not know that former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani was coming to New Zealand before his arriv…
After six hellish years inside Australia’s offshore detention regime, Boochani reflects on the country that rejected him, his new-found freedom and the friends he left behindSupport our independent journalism with a one-off or recurring contribution“On…
Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker arrives in Christchurch for a literary festivalNew Zealand’s immigration service has said the Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker and journalist Behrouz Boochani will not get special treatment if he overstays his visitor visa.Bo…
Official reception highlights New Zealand’s differences with Australia over immigrationThe city of Christchurch has welcomed Behrouz Boochani with a civic reception and a traditional Māori mihi whakatau – a formal welcome – as his presence, and liberty…