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Famed Kurdish Iranian journalist receives asylum in New Zealand

Behrouz Boochani is known for exposing conditions at Australia's offshore immigrant detention center on Manus Island.
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An Iranian journalist who exposed conditions at an Australian immigrant detention center has been granted refugee status in New Zealand.

Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish journalist from Iran. Boochani fled the country for Australia following arrests of his colleagues in 2013 at the magazine he founded. 

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