Behrouz Boochani
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Free but restless, Behrouz Boochani takes tentative first steps into new life
Kurdish Iranian journalist is adapting to quietness and isolation of New Zealand after six years of struggleIt…
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New Zealand hails Behrouz Boochani visa as a victory for ‘fairness and compassion’
Exiled journalist is offered a role at University of Canterbury amid celebration of successful application for…
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Behrouz Boochani granted refugee status in New Zealand
Exclusive: Journalist who became the voice of the victims of Australia’s punitive detention system granted a v…
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Behrouz Boochani: Jacinda Ardern lashes ‘offensive’ claim refugee won political favours
Opposition immigration spokesman in New Zealand claims Kurdish refugee was let into the country only because h…
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Behrouz Boochani’s book, No Friend But The Mountains, to be made into a film
Kurdish Iranian writer says the film will bring more attention to Australia’s brutal immigration detention reg…
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New Zealand would be honoured to take Behrouz Boochani. Australia be damned | Morgan Godfery
The moral case for the former Manus island detainee becoming a citizen is as simple as ‘asylum is a human righ…
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Jacinda Ardern says she was kept in the dark over arrival of Manus refugee Behrouz Boochani
New Zealand PM says she’s disappointed her immigration minister was aware of the arrival but had not passed in…
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Jacinda Ardern says she was kept in the dark over arrival of Manus refugee Behrouz Boochani
New Zealand PM says she’s disappointed her immigration minister was aware of the arrival but had not passed in…
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Behrouz Boochani, brutalised but not beaten by Manus, says simply: ‘I did my best’
After six hellish years inside Australia’s offshore detention regime, Boochani reflects on the country that re…