Behrouz Boochani

Quick Facts

Full Name	Behrouz Boochani
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jul 23, 1983(1983-07-23)
Age	41
Birthplace	Ilam
Country	Iran
Horoscope	Cancer

Behrouz Boochani Biography

Behrouz Boochani is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on July 23, 1983 in Ilam, Iran.

Behrouz Boochani (born 23 July 1983) is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, human rights defender, writer and film producer. He was born in western Iran. He was held in the Australian-run Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea from 2013 until its closure in 2017. He remained on the island before being moved to Port Moresby along with the other detainees around September 2019. On 14 November 2019 he arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand on a one-month visa, to speak at a special event organised by WORD Christchurch on 29 November, as well as other speaking events. In December 2019, his one month visa to New Zealand expired. It has been confirmed that Boochani has not left New Zealand, and is currently there on an expired visa.

Boochani feels a sense of duty towards the men he was forced to leave behind on PNG. Apart from those who have died, he said about that three-quarters of the refugees and asylum seekers sent to the Manus camp since 2012 have left, to Australia, the US or other countries. However he is deeply concerned that some remain trapped there, especially the 46 who are being held in Bomana prison in Port Moresby.

Behrouz Boochani Net Worth

Behrouz Boochani is one of the richest Journalist from Iran. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Behrouz Boochani 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Boochani was born in Ilam, Iran in 1983. He has described himself as “a child of war”, referring to the 1980s war between the Iraqi Ba’athists and “Iranian zealots” fought largely in his Kurdish homeland in western Iran. He graduated from Tarbiat Modares University and the Tarbiat Moallem University (now named Kharazmi University), both in Tehran, with a master’s degree in political science, political geography and geopolitics.

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Boochani started making contact with journalists and human rights defenders outside the camp. He gathered information about human rights abuses within the camp and sent them via a secreted mobile phone to news organisations and advocacy groups such as The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, the Refugee Action Collective, and the United Nations. In September 2015, PEN International (the Melbourne and Norwegian branches of which Boochani is now an honorary member) and a coalition of human rights groups launched an international campaign on Boochani’s behalf, urging the Australian government to abide by its obligations to the principle of non-refoulement, as defined by Article 33 of the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Several campaigns have urged individuals to write to Peter Dutton, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, the Australian Prime Minister and high commissioners. Reporters without Borders warned that dissent was not tolerated by Iran’s theocratic regime, and that Boochani’s “freedom would be in great danger if he were forced to return to Iran”. Boochani has asked repeatedly to be handed to the UN.

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Boochani is one of the subjects of, as well as chief collaborator on, the play Manus written by playwright Nazanin Sahamizadeh in 2017, which tells the story of eight Iranians who fled Iran for Australia. It relates the stories of their lives in Iran and their experiences in detention on Manus, including details of the riot in February 2014, which led to the murder of one of them, Reza Barati, by locals. It was performed in Tehran in February–March 2017, running for a month in the Qashqai Hall of the City Theatre Complex and attended by nearly 3000 people, including Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, and Australian diplomats. It was also performed in two cities in Bangladesh in October 2017, at the Chittagong Shilpakala Academy in Chittagong and in Dhaka. The playwright Sahamizadeh said it was performed there as a part of its international tour to express compassion and solidarity with Rohingya refugees from Myanmar who had sought protection in Bangladesh recently. It will be directed by the author and produced by the Verbatim Theatre Group at the Adelaide Festival in March 2019.

What happened to Behrouz Boochani?

Behrouz Boochani also founded, edited and wrote for the Kurdish language magazine, Werya. He has been incarcerated in Manus Island Detention camp for almost 42 months now.

Is Behrouz Boochani a New Zealand citizen?

A high-profile refugee who was detained by Australia for six years has been granted asylum in New Zealand. Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian Kurd , has lived in Christchurch since fleeing Australia’s island detention in 2019.

Why did Behrouz Boochani flee his home country?

Boochani feels a sense of duty towards the men he was forced to leave behind on PNG. Apart from those who have died, he said that about three- quarters of the refugees and asylum seekers sent to the Manus camp since 2012 have left, to Australia, the US or other countries.

How long was Behrouz Boochani detained?

He spent 2,269 days there before being transferred to Port Moresby. Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court later found the detention centre on Manus Island to be illegal.

When did Behrouz Boochani leave Iran?

A Kurdish investigative journalist in his homeland, Iran, Boochani was persecuted for his reporting and his support for Kurdish rights, and fled for Australia in 2013.