{"id":20918,"date":"2020-07-24T07:59:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T22:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/24\/behrouz-boochani-granted-refugee-status-in-new-zealand"},"modified":"2020-07-24T07:59:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T22:59:29","slug":"behrouz-boochani-granted-refugee-status-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20918","title":{"rendered":"Behrouz Boochani granted refugee status in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Journalist who became the voice of the victims of Australia\u2019s punitive detention system granted a visa after seven-year ordeal <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/behrouz-boochani\">Behrouz Boochani<\/a>, the Kurdish Iranian exile and journalist who became the voice of those incarcerated on Manus Island, has had his refugee status formally recognised by New Zealand, and granted a visa to live there.<\/p>\n<p>He said he finally felt secure \u201cknowing that I have a future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/24\/behrouz-boochani-granted-refugee-status-in-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Journalist who became the voice of the victims of Australia\u2019s 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,935,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-behrouz-boochani","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20919,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20918\/revisions\/20919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}