Behrouz Boochani

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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 refugee statusBehrouz Boochani granted refugee status in New Zealand“A protective cloak” will be draped over Kurdish Iranian exile Behrouz Bo…

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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 he had ‘political friends’ in government Jacinda Ardern has denounced as “offensive” a suggestion that Behrouz Boochani benefited from a politi…

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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 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…

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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 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…

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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 information onJacinda Ardern said she did not know that former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani was coming to New Zealand before his arriv…

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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 information onJacinda Ardern said she did not know that former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani was coming to New Zealand before his arriv…

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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 rejected him, his new-found freedom and the friends he left behindSupport our independent journalism with a one-off or recurring contribution“On…

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