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ONE UP! ONE WONDERFUL END - Writing is an act of resistance | Behrouz Boochani | TEDxSydney
"Tough guys: Operation Sovereign Borders vs the PNG Solution
27 July 2013, 12.18pm AEST "
•Jul 31, 2019
TEDx Talks
For the past six years Behrouz Boochani, like hundreds of others who have sought asylum in Australia, has been imprisoned on Manus Island. In this moving talk, he calls for compassion and freedom, reminding us all that "we are human just like you”. As Behrouz says, "for me, writing and creating is a kind of resistance, it is a way of fighting to get my identity, humanity and dignity back in front of a system that is established to take anything that has meaning of life from us." Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish journalist, writer, poet and filmmaker. He has been held in Manus Island detention centre since 2013. During his time in detention he has published regularly with The Guardian, and his writing also features in The Saturday Paper, Huffington Post, New Matilda, The Financial Times and The Sydney Morning Heraldcoveringthe plight of his fellow refugees, held by the Australian government on Manus Island.
In 2018 he published his novel — No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, which won Australia’s most valuable literary award, the $100,000 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature.
His journalism has also been awarded the Amnesty International Australia 2017 Media Award, the Diaspora Symposium Social Justice Award, the Liberty Victoria 2018 Empty Chair Award, and the Anna Politkovskaya Award for journalism. Boochani remains in detention in Manus Island. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZCPsS5Ais0
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A victory for humanity': Behrouz Boochani's literary prize speech in full
•Feb 1, 2019
Guardian News
Asylum seeker Behrouz Boochani has accepted the $125,000 Victorian premier’s literary prize via video link from Manus Island where he has been held for six years. 'I would like to say that this award is a victory. It is a victory not only for us but for literature and art and above all it is victory for humanity,' the writer said. 'It is a victory against the system that has reduced us to numbers. This is a beautiful moment. Let us all rejoice tonight in the power of literature'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h-AlVaFLvQ
Manus Island refugee Behrouz Boochani wins prestigious Victorian Premier's Literary Award
Posted Thursday 31 January 2019 at 11:40pm, updated Thursday 31 January 2019 at 11:55pm
Behrouz Boochani's book reflected on his experiences on Manus Island.(AAP: Jason Garman/ Amnesty International)
Manus Island refugee Behrouz Boochani has won the top prize at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards after organisers made an exception to allow him to enter despite not being an Australian resident or citizen.
Key points:
* Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani has been detained on Manus Island since 2013
* He said he hopes the award win will bring more attention to the situation on the island
* Mr Boochani wrote the book by sending it in Whatsapp messages to his translator
His novel — No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison — won the country's most valuable literary award, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, as well as claiming $25,000 for first place in the category of non-fiction.
But Boochani was not in attendance at the awards ceremony. The Kurdish-Iranian journalist remains on Manus Island and, has been denied entry into Australia since his detention began in 2013.
Speaking to The Guardian, for which he is a columnist, Boochani described receiving the award from a country that has kept him locked up for the better part of six years as "a paradoxical feeling".
"My main aim has always been for the people in Australia and around the world to understand deeply how this system has tortured innocent people on Manus and Nauru in a systematic way for almost six years," he told Guardian Australia.
"I hope this award will bring more attention to our situation, and create change, and end this barbaric policy."
More - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-31/behrouz-boochani-wins-australias-richest-literary-prize/10768688
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Behrouz Boochani: Living in limbo on Manus Island | Talk to Al Jazeera
•Feb 10, 2018
Al Jazeera English
For more than four-and-a-half years, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani has been in limbo on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfRPg3uQivE
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Refugee Behrouz Boochani free in New Zealand after years of detention in PNG | 7.30
•Nov 19, 2019
ABC News (Australia)
Seen by many as the voice of asylum seekers held in off-shore detention, the refugee and author Behrouz Boochani has been allowed to travel to New Zealand to speak at a literary festival. He isn't ruling out claiming asylum there, which could create political tension, as Australia has long rejected the New Zealand's offer to resettle refugees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXvZ19H0Eb8
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Behrouz Boochani granted refugee status in New Zealand
Refugee shone a light on plight of hundreds of asylum seekers held in an Australian-run offshore island detention camp.
24 Jul 2020
Immigration New Zealand said Boochani's application had been successful, which means he has the right
to stay in the South Pacific nation indefinitely [File: Kai Schwoerer/Getty Images]
Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian refugee who wrote an award-winning book on his mobile phone while held in one of Australia's notorious Pacific detention camps, has been granted asylum in New Zealand.
The 37-year-old has been in New Zealand since November when he applied for refugee status after attending a literary festival to speak about his six years in limbo under Australia's hardline immigration policies.
Immigration New Zealand said Boochani's application had been successful, which means he has the right to stay in the country indefinitely.
"Mr Boochani has been recognised as a refugee under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol," it said in a brief statement, refusing to release further details on privacy grounds.
Asylum seekers intercepted at sea by Australian authorities are sent to Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, where Boochani was, or the South Pacific island of Nauru. They are permanently barred from settling in Australia, with many languishing on the islands for years.
'Whole story remains'
Boochani said while it was a huge step forward to have certainty about his future, the development had left him with mixed feelings.
"I feel relieved, it's the end of very long story, my personal story," Boochani said. "But on the other side, the whole story still remains, and I'm only part of whole story. This policy of Australia still keeps people in indefinite detention."
While the numbers of asylum-seekers being held in offshore detention camps by Australia has been significantly reduced over the years, Boochani said there are still hundreds being kept in limbo on Nauru and Papua New Guinea, as well as within Australia.
VIDEO - Behrouz Boochani leaves Manus Island after six years, lands in NZ
Boochani first travelled to New Zealand from Papua New Guinea in November on a temporary one-month visa to speak at a literary festival about his book, which details the time he spent on Manus Island.
After his visa expired, he stayed on in the city of Christchurch, choosing to keep a relatively low profile as his case became politicised in New Zealand.
"I don't want to be a politician. I didn't want to create a challenge in this country," Boochani said. "I have a simple life, and have been doing work overseas."
Boochani confirmed he had previously been recognised as a refugee by the United States, although he said the process had never been finalised. Under President Donald Trump, the US has been reluctant to accept refugees from certain countries, including Iran.
Experience on Manus Island
After Boochani, an ethnic Kurd, fled from Iran he eventually made his way by boat to Australia's Christmas Island in 2013 and was later held on Manus Island.
Using a smuggled phone and posting to social media, Boochani shone a light on the plight of hundreds of asylum seekers. He detailed the unsanitary conditions, hunger strikes and violence, as well as deaths caused by medical neglect and suicide.
He said he felt a responsibility to film and write, to challenge the system and expose what was going on.
He eventually used his phone to write his book, sending snippets in Farsi to a translator over the messaging app WhatsApp.
VIDEO - Australia's asylum seekers excluded from government financial aid (2:32)
Named No Friend But the Mountains [ https://www.booktopia.com.au/no-friend-but-the-mountains-behrouz-boochani/book/9781760784942.html ], the book won a prestigious Australian award, the Victorian Prize for Literature.
Boochani could not collect his award or the prize money of 125,000 Australian dollars ($89,000) in person because he was still confined to Manus. He was later moved to the capital, Port Moresby.
In New Zealand, Boochani will work as a senior adjunct research fellow at the University of Canterbury, the institution announced.
Boochani said he has been working with Indigenous Maori from the Ngai Tahu tribe. One thorny issue could be whether Boochani is ever allowed to visit Australia.
SOURCE: News agencies
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/behrouz-boochani-granted-refugee-status-zealand-200724062459111.html
See also:
Nauru media visa fee hike to 'cover up harsh conditions at Australian tax-payer funded detention centre'
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=95763608
Pushing Out the Boundaries of Humanitarian Screening with In-Country and Offshore Processing
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=107332128
Number of displaced people worldwide exceeds 50 million: UN report
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=103511267
"Tough guys: Operation Sovereign Borders vs the PNG Solution
27 July 2013, 12.18pm AEST "
•Jul 31, 2019
TEDx Talks
For the past six years Behrouz Boochani, like hundreds of others who have sought asylum in Australia, has been imprisoned on Manus Island. In this moving talk, he calls for compassion and freedom, reminding us all that "we are human just like you”. As Behrouz says, "for me, writing and creating is a kind of resistance, it is a way of fighting to get my identity, humanity and dignity back in front of a system that is established to take anything that has meaning of life from us." Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish journalist, writer, poet and filmmaker. He has been held in Manus Island detention centre since 2013. During his time in detention he has published regularly with The Guardian, and his writing also features in The Saturday Paper, Huffington Post, New Matilda, The Financial Times and The Sydney Morning Heraldcoveringthe plight of his fellow refugees, held by the Australian government on Manus Island.
In 2018 he published his novel — No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, which won Australia’s most valuable literary award, the $100,000 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature.
His journalism has also been awarded the Amnesty International Australia 2017 Media Award, the Diaspora Symposium Social Justice Award, the Liberty Victoria 2018 Empty Chair Award, and the Anna Politkovskaya Award for journalism. Boochani remains in detention in Manus Island. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZCPsS5Ais0
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A victory for humanity': Behrouz Boochani's literary prize speech in full
•Feb 1, 2019
Guardian News
Asylum seeker Behrouz Boochani has accepted the $125,000 Victorian premier’s literary prize via video link from Manus Island where he has been held for six years. 'I would like to say that this award is a victory. It is a victory not only for us but for literature and art and above all it is victory for humanity,' the writer said. 'It is a victory against the system that has reduced us to numbers. This is a beautiful moment. Let us all rejoice tonight in the power of literature'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h-AlVaFLvQ
Manus Island refugee Behrouz Boochani wins prestigious Victorian Premier's Literary Award
Posted Thursday 31 January 2019 at 11:40pm, updated Thursday 31 January 2019 at 11:55pm
Behrouz Boochani's book reflected on his experiences on Manus Island.(AAP: Jason Garman/ Amnesty International)
Manus Island refugee Behrouz Boochani has won the top prize at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards after organisers made an exception to allow him to enter despite not being an Australian resident or citizen.
Key points:
* Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani has been detained on Manus Island since 2013
* He said he hopes the award win will bring more attention to the situation on the island
* Mr Boochani wrote the book by sending it in Whatsapp messages to his translator
His novel — No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison — won the country's most valuable literary award, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, as well as claiming $25,000 for first place in the category of non-fiction.
But Boochani was not in attendance at the awards ceremony. The Kurdish-Iranian journalist remains on Manus Island and, has been denied entry into Australia since his detention began in 2013.
Speaking to The Guardian, for which he is a columnist, Boochani described receiving the award from a country that has kept him locked up for the better part of six years as "a paradoxical feeling".
"My main aim has always been for the people in Australia and around the world to understand deeply how this system has tortured innocent people on Manus and Nauru in a systematic way for almost six years," he told Guardian Australia.
"I hope this award will bring more attention to our situation, and create change, and end this barbaric policy."
More - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-31/behrouz-boochani-wins-australias-richest-literary-prize/10768688
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Behrouz Boochani: Living in limbo on Manus Island | Talk to Al Jazeera
•Feb 10, 2018
Al Jazeera English
For more than four-and-a-half years, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani has been in limbo on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfRPg3uQivE
*
Refugee Behrouz Boochani free in New Zealand after years of detention in PNG | 7.30
•Nov 19, 2019
ABC News (Australia)
Seen by many as the voice of asylum seekers held in off-shore detention, the refugee and author Behrouz Boochani has been allowed to travel to New Zealand to speak at a literary festival. He isn't ruling out claiming asylum there, which could create political tension, as Australia has long rejected the New Zealand's offer to resettle refugees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXvZ19H0Eb8
*
Behrouz Boochani granted refugee status in New Zealand
Refugee shone a light on plight of hundreds of asylum seekers held in an Australian-run offshore island detention camp.
24 Jul 2020
Immigration New Zealand said Boochani's application had been successful, which means he has the right
to stay in the South Pacific nation indefinitely [File: Kai Schwoerer/Getty Images]
Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian refugee who wrote an award-winning book on his mobile phone while held in one of Australia's notorious Pacific detention camps, has been granted asylum in New Zealand.
The 37-year-old has been in New Zealand since November when he applied for refugee status after attending a literary festival to speak about his six years in limbo under Australia's hardline immigration policies.
Immigration New Zealand said Boochani's application had been successful, which means he has the right to stay in the country indefinitely.
"Mr Boochani has been recognised as a refugee under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol," it said in a brief statement, refusing to release further details on privacy grounds.
Asylum seekers intercepted at sea by Australian authorities are sent to Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, where Boochani was, or the South Pacific island of Nauru. They are permanently barred from settling in Australia, with many languishing on the islands for years.
'Whole story remains'
Boochani said while it was a huge step forward to have certainty about his future, the development had left him with mixed feelings.
"I feel relieved, it's the end of very long story, my personal story," Boochani said. "But on the other side, the whole story still remains, and I'm only part of whole story. This policy of Australia still keeps people in indefinite detention."
While the numbers of asylum-seekers being held in offshore detention camps by Australia has been significantly reduced over the years, Boochani said there are still hundreds being kept in limbo on Nauru and Papua New Guinea, as well as within Australia.
VIDEO - Behrouz Boochani leaves Manus Island after six years, lands in NZ
Boochani first travelled to New Zealand from Papua New Guinea in November on a temporary one-month visa to speak at a literary festival about his book, which details the time he spent on Manus Island.
After his visa expired, he stayed on in the city of Christchurch, choosing to keep a relatively low profile as his case became politicised in New Zealand.
"I don't want to be a politician. I didn't want to create a challenge in this country," Boochani said. "I have a simple life, and have been doing work overseas."
Boochani confirmed he had previously been recognised as a refugee by the United States, although he said the process had never been finalised. Under President Donald Trump, the US has been reluctant to accept refugees from certain countries, including Iran.
Experience on Manus Island
After Boochani, an ethnic Kurd, fled from Iran he eventually made his way by boat to Australia's Christmas Island in 2013 and was later held on Manus Island.
Using a smuggled phone and posting to social media, Boochani shone a light on the plight of hundreds of asylum seekers. He detailed the unsanitary conditions, hunger strikes and violence, as well as deaths caused by medical neglect and suicide.
He said he felt a responsibility to film and write, to challenge the system and expose what was going on.
He eventually used his phone to write his book, sending snippets in Farsi to a translator over the messaging app WhatsApp.
VIDEO - Australia's asylum seekers excluded from government financial aid (2:32)
Named No Friend But the Mountains [ https://www.booktopia.com.au/no-friend-but-the-mountains-behrouz-boochani/book/9781760784942.html ], the book won a prestigious Australian award, the Victorian Prize for Literature.
Boochani could not collect his award or the prize money of 125,000 Australian dollars ($89,000) in person because he was still confined to Manus. He was later moved to the capital, Port Moresby.
In New Zealand, Boochani will work as a senior adjunct research fellow at the University of Canterbury, the institution announced.
Boochani said he has been working with Indigenous Maori from the Ngai Tahu tribe. One thorny issue could be whether Boochani is ever allowed to visit Australia.
SOURCE: News agencies
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/behrouz-boochani-granted-refugee-status-zealand-200724062459111.html
See also:
Nauru media visa fee hike to 'cover up harsh conditions at Australian tax-payer funded detention centre'
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=95763608
Pushing Out the Boundaries of Humanitarian Screening with In-Country and Offshore Processing
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=107332128
Number of displaced people worldwide exceeds 50 million: UN report
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=103511267
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