カテゴリー: Behrouz Boochani
Kurdish Iranian journalist is adapting to quietness and isolation of New Zealand after six years of struggleIt’s the middle of the day in a sleepy, affluent suburb of Christchurch and Kurdish Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani is burning lunch.It has bee…
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…
Exclusive: Journalist who became the voice of the victims of Australia’s punitive detention system granted a visa after seven-year ordeal Behrouz Boochani, the Kurdish Iranian exile and journalist who became the voice of those incarcerated on Manus Isl…
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…
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…