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  'Designed to torture': asylum seeker chooses Iranian prison over PNG detention centre

  

  theguardian.com

  Man who spent nine weeks locked up inside Australian-funded centre in Port Moresby describes hunger, isolation and lack of legal support Ariobarzan endured six years of detention inside and outside the barbed wire on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island in the hope he would find a new life in Australia.But after nine weeks at the Bomana immigration centre, a Canberra-funded detention centre in Port Moresby, the Iranian asylum seeker has signed up to go home. Continue reading...

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  Behrouz Boochani Just Wants to Be Free

  

  nytimes.com

  He fled Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. He exposed Australia’s offshore detention camps — from the inside. He...

  He fled Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. He exposed Australia’s offshore detention camps — from the inside. He survived, stateless, for seven years. What’s next?

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  Behrouz Boochani granted refugee status in New Zealand

  

  theguardian.com

  Exclusive: Journalist who became the voice of the victims of Australia’s punitive detention system granted a...

  Exclusive: Journalist who became the voice of the victims of Australia’s 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 Island, has had his refugee status formally recognised by New Zealand, and granted a visa to live there.He said he finally felt secure “knowing that I have...

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  Manus Island refugees recount violent attacks by armed locals on apartment compound

  

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  Refugees relocated from Manus Island to Port Moresby say they have been attacked twice in less...

  Refugees relocated from Manus Island to Port Moresby say they have been attacked twice in less than a monthRefugees who have been moved from Manus Island to the Papua New Guinean capital of Port Moresby say they have endured two violent attacks in less than a month from local residents.Two refugees have told Guardian Australia that in both instances, groups of local men have...

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