Behrouz Boochani: ‘I was not a victim. I was a fighter’
In a bohemian corner of Wellington, the former Manus Island detainee has found his way through writing and walking – despite, he insists, being properly lazy
May 2023
Ten years of Guardian Australia
Behrouz Boochani, the refugee writer who exposed the cruelty of Australia’s island jail
One inmate became the voice of the men locked up on Manus. Behrouz Boochani and Ben Doherty look back at the risks he took to get this story to the world
February 2023
David Pocock blasts Albanese government as it reauthorises Nauru offshore immigration detention
Labor also seeks to overturn court decision that forced it to release 100 people from onshore detention despite character concerns
December 2022
Behrouz Boochani in Australia: ‘Some of those politicians who barred me are gone. But I am here’
The Kurdish Iranian refugee was always confident he would prove Peter Dutton’s declaration that he ‘wouldn’t be permitted to come to Australia’ wrong
March 2022
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Why it took Australia nine years to accept New Zealand’s refugee deal
Guardian reporter Ben Doherty and author Behrouz Boochani discuss the human toll exacted through Australia’s harsh asylum seeker policies
July 2021
For eight years, Australia has been taking refugees as hostages. It’s time to ask: who has benefited?
Behrouz Boochani
The government needs our bodies for political power, while the detention industry needs us to fuel its money-making torture machine. But what has Australia truly gained?
March 2021
'Music is a way of reclaiming time': Behrouz Boochani's lauded memoir becomes a poetic musical event
Composer Luke Styles has drawn upon Boochani’s acclaimed book, No Friend But the Mountains, to create an immense song cycle
December 2020
Archibald prize 2020: Angus McDonald's portrait of Behrouz Boochani wins people's choice award
Portrait depicting ‘strong, confident and peaceful’ Kurdish-Iranian writer and refugee, who spent six years in detention, wins public vote
September 2020
For the refugees Australia imprisons, music is liberation, life and defiance
Behrouz Boochani
Playing music in detention is possibly the most radical act against the violence of the prison and the system as a whole
July 2020
Free but restless, Behrouz Boochani takes tentative first steps into new life
New Zealand hails Behrouz Boochani visa as a victory for 'fairness and compassion'
My brilliant friend Behrouz Boochani finally has a permanent home in a country he has come to love
Donna Miles-Mojab
The Pacific project
Behrouz Boochani granted refugee status in New Zealand
May 2020
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
February 2020
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 regime
December 2019
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’
November 2019
Jacinda Ardern says she was kept in the dark over arrival of Manus refugee Behrouz Boochani
Behrouz Boochani, brutalised but not beaten by Manus, says simply: 'I did my best'
No special treatment for Behrouz Boochani, says New Zealand
Today, Aotearoa New Zealand stands with Behrouz Boochani as a counterpoint to the politics of hate
