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Mortaza Behboudi | |
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| Born | 22 April 1994 Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan |
| Nationality | Franco-Afghan |
| Alma mater | Pantheon-Sorbonne University (MA) |
| Occupation | Journalist · Documentary Filmmaker |
Mortaza Behboudi (Persian/Dari: مرتضی بهبودی; born April 22, 1994) is a Franco-Afghan war reporter and documentary filmmaker.[1] In 2019, he was featured in Forbes 30 under 30 in the category of Media and Marketing for his work on Guiti News.[2] Mortaza Behboudi is Bayeux Calvados-Normandy War Correspondents Prize and Prix Varenne winner in the year 2022.[3][4] On January the 7th, 2023, Behboudi was detained and imprisoned by the Taliban in Afghanistan, from where he had been reporting for a variety of international media since the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021.[5] He was released from his detention after 284 days on the 18th of October, 2023.[6]
- ^ Macnab, Geoffrey. "Cannes FF: Moria, Beyond Hell by Mortaza Behboudi". Business Doc Europe.
- ^ "Mortaza Behboudi". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-08-05.
- ^ "Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandie". Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandie (in French). Retrieved 2022-10-21.
- ^ Foundation Varenne, Remise des Prix Varenne 2022, 4:54-5:10, retrieved 2023-02-04
- ^ "RSF and 15 media outlets call for the release of French-Afghan journalist Mortaza Behboudi, held in Afghanistan | RSF". rsf.org. 2023-02-06. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
- ^ "Mortaza Behboudi's new-found freedom: the story of more than 9 months of campaigning | RSF". rsf.org. 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-10-21.