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Truth to power: my time translating Behrouz Boochani’s masterpiece
The GM picks me up from the airport. I call him the GM because after the PNG Supreme Court ruled the Manus Island immigration detention centre illegal, this man was able to leave the prison and…
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Behrouz Boochani has arranged for me to stay at that lodge.
The GM’s Manusian colleague and another refugee accompany him. Driving into town we see police blocking part of the road beside a school; some locals are dispersing, others are gazing over at a…
I find out afterwards that the body of Hamed Shamshiripour has just been discovered among those trees beaten and with a…