A Syrian asylum seeker, who is challenging his move onto the Bibby Stockholm on mental health grounds, told Sky News he came to the UK to escape war, but the small rooms offered on the barge are similar to what he was hiding in at home. Read more:
A traumatised Syrian asylum seeker has said living on the Bibby Stockholm would remind him of hiding from the Islamic State group, as lawyers protest against his transfer on to the barge.today, Hoshyar told Sky News about his fight to avoid joining them off the coast of Dorset.
He received notice at the end of July that the government planned to move him out of the hotel in Bournemouth where he's been living for six months, and on to the barge with 500 other men.He was meant to move in on 1 August, a week before the first occupants actually arrived on board. But through legal aid, he was able to get an intervention, and he's been granted a reprieve while he waits for news."Because we have all run away from war, trauma or conflict and we're looking for more space; so if you squeezed me in a smaller place, you are putting me back to that small room where I was hiding when ISIS was attacking our area," he added, referring to another of the Islamic State group's names.
"So it would just remind me again of that two metre by two metre room, and ISIS troops are around, and you have to hide."
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