{"id":20938,"date":"2020-07-24T11:56:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T02:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/24\/new-zealand-hails-behrouz-boochani-visa-as-a-victory-for-fairness-and-compassion"},"modified":"2020-07-24T11:56:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T02:56:54","slug":"new-zealand-hails-behrouz-boochani-visa-as-a-victory-for-fairness-and-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20938","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand hails Behrouz Boochani visa as a victory for &#8216;fairness and compassion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exiled journalist is offered a role at University of Canterbury amid celebration of successful application for refugee status<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/24\/behrouz-boochani-granted-refugee-status-in-new-zealand\">Behrouz Boochani granted refugee status in New Zealand<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cA protective cloak\u201d will be draped over Kurdish Iranian exile Behrouz Boochani, New Zealand supporters have said, after the dissident journalist\u2019s claim for asylum was accepted following a seven-year ordeal.<\/p>\n<p>Boochani was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/24\/behrouz-boochani-granted-refugee-status-in-new-zealand\">officially notified<\/a> by New Zealand\u2019s government exactly seven years to the day after his arrival in Australia in 2013 \u2013 and on his 37 birthday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/24\/new-zealand-hails-behrouz-boochani-visa-as-a-victory-for-fairness-and-compassion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u201cA protective cloak\u201d will be draped over Kurdish Iranian exile Behrouz Bo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1469,"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":[41,43,388,935,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","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\/20938","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\/1469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20939,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938\/revisions\/20939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}