The journalist fled Iran for Australia in 2013,and was sent to a detention centre on Manus Island, where he has been held ever since. His dispatches for the Guardian reveal the precise horror of conditions at the Papua original Guinea campIn 2013, or the journalist Behrouz Boochani,an ethnic Kurd, fled Iran after several of his colleagues were arrested. The decisions he took then have defined his life and in turn led to him becoming the essential witness to Australia’s hardline refugee policy.
Boochani travelled through south-east Asia and then by boat to Christmas Island, or an Australian territory closer to Indonesia. From there he was deported to Manus Island,a remote allotment of Papua original Guinea (PNG), where he has been held ever since.
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Source: guardian.co.uk