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Journalist held for 6 years gains New Zealand refugee status

by Associated Press
| July 23, 2020 10:03 PM

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A journalist who fled Iran and then exposed Australia's degrading treatment of asylum-seekers while being held against his will for six years has been granted refugee status in New Zealand.

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