# Behrouz Boochani

> Behrouz Boochani is an Iranian Kurdish journalist, human rights defender, writer and film producer living in New Zealand. 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 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 and he remained on an expired visa until being granted refugee status in July 2020, at which time he became a Senior Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury.

*Iranian-Kurdish journalist, human rights defender, poet and film producer*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/behrouz-boochani

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Journalist
- **Category:** Journalists
- **Born:** 1983-07-23
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 50.8 / 100
- **Momentum:** 3.8 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 14.5 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/BehrouzBoochani (@BehrouzBoochani)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8570080/ (@nm8570080)

## Sources
- [Wikiquote](https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Behrouz_Boochani)
- [بهروز بوجاني](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A)
- [بيهروز بوتشانى](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89)
- [Behrouz Boochani](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behrouz_Boochani)
- [بێھرووز بووچانی](https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8E%DA%BE%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%88%D8%B2_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%88%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C)
- [Behrouz Boochani](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behrouz_Boochani)
- [Behrouz Boochani](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behrouz_Boochani)
- [بهروز بوچانی](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2_%D8%A8%D9%88%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C)
- [Behrouz Boochani](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behrouz_Boochani)
- [Behrouz Boochani](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behrouz_Boochani)
- [Behrouz Boochani](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behrouz_Boochani)
- [ベフルーズ・ブチャーニー](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%95%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC)
- [Bêhrûz Boçanî](https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%AAhr%C3%BBz_Bo%C3%A7an%C3%AE)
- [ബെഹ്രൂസ് ബുച്ചാനി](https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B9%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%9A%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9A%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BF)
- [Бучани, Бехруз](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%2C_%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%85%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B7)
- [Behruz Boçani](https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behruz_Bo%C3%A7ani)
- [بہروز بوچانی](https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%81%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2_%D8%A8%D9%88%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29452528)
- [Behrouz Boochani](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1835058)

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