Behrouz Boochani was featured as a case of concern by PEN International on Human Rights day 2015. They write:
’10 December 2015
PEN International is deeply concerned by the detention of Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani, who has been held in Australia’s offshore Immigration Detention Centre on Manus Island, in Papua New Guinea for the past two years. He has sought asylum is Australia since July 2013.’